Record stores in Mexico City

Record shops reward the patient digger. Mexico City, CDMX has 16 mapped right now. That's 16 record shops mapped around Mexico City. 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 Mexico City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Street Tecnik and Mixup, plus La Furia de las Calles. If a record shop's missing from Mexico City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Mexico City record lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Mexico City

3 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Mexico City record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Street Tecnik, Mixup, La Furia de las Calles on 576 Calz. Ignacio Zaragoza, Hermes Music S.A de C.V. on 76 Naranjo, Mixup on Gran Sur, Academia Musical Garrido on 106 Avenida Insurgentes Centro, Centro de Cultura Musical Álzate, and Karma Music. That's 16 stops on the Mexico City record crawl. 8 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Mexico City

Digging in Mexico City? A few habits pay off:

• Ask about the return policy at Street Tecnik. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• Inspect the seams at Mixup. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Check Discogs before big purchases. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Mexico City — 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 Mexico City can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 16 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 16 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.