Record stores in Santiago

Record shops reward the patient digger. Santiago, Santiago has 12 mapped right now. That's 12 record shops mapped around Santiago. 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 Santiago (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tienda Discos and Kind of Blue, plus Disqueria Funtracks. If a record shop's missing from Santiago's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Santiago record lineup

12 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Santiago

1 of the 12 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

The Santiago record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Tienda Discos on 48 Avenida Portugal, Kind of Blue on 323 Merced, Disqueria Funtracks on Nueva de Lyon, Central Music, Music World on 8980 Isla de Pascua, Vinilos MundoPlanet, Tienda Humo on 2216 Avenida Providencia, and Galería de los Músicos. That's 12 stops on the Santiago record crawl. 4 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Santiago

How the regulars work Santiago's bins:

• Inspect the seams at Tienda Discos. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs at Kind of Blue. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Check for box sets. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Santiago — 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 Santiago can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 12 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 12 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.