Record stores in Monaco

Record shops reward the patient digger. Monaco, Monaco has 9 mapped right now. That's 9 record shops mapped around Monaco. 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 Monaco (within about 20 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tout Pour La Musique and Musique P. Madrel, plus Sonic import. If a record shop's missing from Monaco's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Monaco record lineup

9 mapped within about 20 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Monaco

4 of the 9 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

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

3 of the shops are tagged as selling used vinyl — the dollar bins and used wall are where the real digging happens.

The Monaco record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Tout Pour La Musique, Musique P. Madrel on 29 Rue de Lépante, Sonic import, HIT Disquaire, Crazy Rhythm, Kosimi Records on 28 Rue de l'Hôtel des Postes, The Electric Monk, and Music 3000 on 4 Rue de Lépante. That's 9 stops on the Monaco record crawl. 1 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Monaco

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

• Ask about want-list services at Tout Pour La Musique. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Learn the grading at Musique P. Madrel. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.

Good to know

We searched about 20 km around Monaco — 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 Monaco can take a while to appear. The 9 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 9 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.