Record stores in Lausanne

Record shops reward the patient digger. Lausanne, Vaud has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 record shops mapped around Lausanne. 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 Lausanne (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Belair Records and disc-à-brac, plus BelAir Records. If a record shop's missing from Lausanne's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Lausanne record lineup

5 in Lausanne, plus 5 more around Lausanne below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Lausanne

3 of the 5 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 Lausanne list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Lausanne record crawl

Making a day of it in Lausanne? Work this order: Belair Records on 51 Rue de Bourg, disc-à-brac on 2 Rue de l'Ale, BelAir Records on 44 Boulevard de Grancy, Obsession Records on 4 Rue du Petit-Rocher, and Le Salon. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Lausanne

A few things worth knowing before you work through Lausanne's record stores:

• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve at Belair Records. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Learn to spot reissues at disc-à-brac. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
• The listening station is the test. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Learn your labels. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Lausanne — 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 Lausanne can take a while to appear. The 5 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 5 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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Lausanne

5 more within about 25 km of Lausanne, nearest first: