Record stores in Medellín

Medellín, Antioquia has 4 record stores on the map. That's 4 record shops mapped around Medellín. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Medellín (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Surco Records and Cerros Stereo 107.4 FM, plus Surco Records. If a record shop's missing from Medellín's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Medellín record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Medellín

1 of the 4 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The one mapped record store sits on 43-88 calle 47 — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Medellín record crawl

Making a day of it in Medellín? Work this order: Surco Records on 43-88 calle 47, Cerros Stereo 107.4 FM, Surco Records, and La cascada musical Neo- Local 110. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Medellín

How the regulars work Medellín's bins:

• Check for warps in the shop at Surco Records. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs at Cerros Stereo 107.4 FM. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Ask the staff what's new. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Medellín — 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 Medellín can take a while to appear. The 4 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 4 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.