Record stores in Kaunas

Record shops reward the patient digger. Kaunas, Kaunas has 3 mapped right now. That's 3 record shops mapped around Kaunas. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Kaunas (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Plokštelių parduotuvė and Dideli Kompaktai, plus Vinilo oazė. If a record shop's missing from Kaunas's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kaunas record lineup

3 in Kaunas:

What the map tells us about record stores in Kaunas

3 of the 3 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

Most of the record stores in Kaunas list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Kaunas record crawl

The efficient Kaunas record crawl strings these together: Plokštelių parduotuvė on 7 Kęstučio g., Dideli Kompaktai on 6 J. Naugardo g., and Vinilo oazė on 113B Taikos pr. — 3 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Kaunas

Digging in Kaunas? A few habits pay off:

• Inspect the seams at Plokštelių parduotuvė. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve at Dideli Kompaktai. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Check for box sets. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Kaunas — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Kaunas can take a while to appear. The 3 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.