Record stores in Salt Lake City

Vinyl hunting in Salt Lake City, UT? There are 10 record shops mapped here. That's 10 record shops mapped around Salt Lake City. 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 Salt Lake City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Music To The Maxx and Raunch Records, plus Cartunes. If a record shop's missing from Salt Lake City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Salt Lake City record lineup

10 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Salt Lake City

6 of the 10 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

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

The Salt Lake City record crawl

Making a day of it in Salt Lake City? Work this order: Music To The Maxx, Raunch Records on 1119 East 2100 South, Cartunes on 1596 North Hill Field Road, Diabolical Records on 238 South Edison Street, Graywhale Entertainment on 1773 West 4700 South, Fountain Records on 202 East 500 South, The Heavy Metal Shop on 156 East 900 South, and Record Shack on 3700 North Cabelas Boulevard. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 2 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Salt Lake City

Digging in Salt Lake City? A few habits pay off:

• Ask about want-list services at Music To The Maxx. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Bring a want-list at Raunch Records. Write down what you're hunting. Digging is fun, but a list turns luck into strategy.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• 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 40 km around Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake City can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 10 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 10 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.