Record stores in Mumbai

Vinyl hunting in Mumbai, Maharashtra? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around Mumbai. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Mumbai (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Planet-M and Gathani's Music Center. If a record shop's missing from Mumbai's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Mumbai record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Mumbai

None of the 2 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 Mumbai record crawl

The efficient Mumbai record crawl strings these together: Planet-M and Gathani's Music Center — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Mumbai

Digging in Mumbai? A few habits pay off:

• Learn the grading at Planet-M. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Bring cash for the small shops at Gathani's Music Center. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• 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.
• Visit on restock days. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Mumbai — 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 Mumbai can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 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 2 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.