Record stores in Riga

Vinyl hunting in Riga, Riga? There are 5 record shops mapped here. That's 5 record shops mapped around Riga. 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 Riga (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include vinylla.lv and Randoms, plus Downstreet. If a record shop's missing from Riga's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Riga record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Riga

5 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

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

The Riga record crawl

The efficient Riga record crawl strings these together: vinylla.lv on 2 Avotu iela, Randoms on 18 Vaļņu iela, Downstreet on 2 Stabu iela, LP on 37 Krišjāņa Barona iela, and Down Street on 8 Matīsa iela — 5 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Riga

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

• Inspect the seams at vinylla.lv. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first at Randoms. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• 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.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Riga — 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 Riga 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.