Record stores in Panama City

Record shops reward the patient digger. Panama City, Panamá has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 record shops mapped around Panama 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 Panama City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Audioconcept Panama - Sonido, Illuminacion Profesional - Instrumentos Musicales and Sound N Music, plus La Casa del Musico. If a record shop's missing from Panama City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Panama City record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Panama City

None of the 5 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.

There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Avenida Libertador, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

The Panama City record crawl

The efficient Panama City record crawl strings these together: Audioconcept Panama - Sonido, Illuminacion Profesional - Instrumentos Musicales on Calle 61 Este, Sound N Music on Avenida Central, La Casa del Musico on Avenida Libertador, Zion Music on Avenida Libertador, and Volumen Brutal on 313 — 5 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Panama City

Digging in Panama City? A few habits pay off:

• Visit on restock days at Audioconcept Panama - Sonido, Illuminacion Profesional - Instrumentos Musicales. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Bring cash for the small shops at Sound N Music. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• Learn to spot reissues. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Panama 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 Panama City can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 5, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 5 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.