Record stores in Monterrey

Record shops reward the patient digger. Monterrey, Nuevo León has 7 mapped right now. That's 7 record shops mapped around Monterrey. 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 Monterrey (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Mixup and Saharis, plus Saharis. If a record shop's missing from Monterrey's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Monterrey record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Monterrey

None of the 7 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The one mapped record store sits on 805 - A Paras — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Monterrey record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Mixup on 805 - A Paras, Saharis, Saharis, escuela de Musica, Rovi, Rovi Music, and Saharis. That's 7 stops on the Monterrey record crawl.

Record digging tips for Monterrey

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

• Bring cash for the small shops at Mixup. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• The dollar bin is honest work at Saharis. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Learn your labels. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Monterrey — 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 Monterrey can take a while to appear. The 7 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 7 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.