Record stores in St. Louis

Record shops reward the patient digger. St. Louis, MO has 10 mapped right now. That's 10 record shops mapped around St. Louis. 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 St. Louis (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vintage Vinyl and Hip Hop Shop, plus CD Warehouse. If a record shop's missing from St. Louis's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The St. Louis record lineup

10 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in St. Louis

2 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.

The St. Louis record crawl

Making a day of it in St. Louis? Work this order: Vintage Vinyl, Hip Hop Shop on 105 North 42nd Street, CD Warehouse, FYE, Trusty Chords Record Shop on 1514 Troy Road, Midwest Sheet Music, Eddie's Guitars on Manchester Road, and Acme Guitar Shop. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 2 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for St. Louis

Digging in St. Louis? A few habits pay off:

• Visit on restock days at Vintage Vinyl. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Ask about want-list services at Hip Hop Shop. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Check for box sets. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around St. Louis — 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 St. Louis 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.