Record stores in Swansea

Swansea, Wales has 7 record stores on the map. That's 7 record shops mapped around Swansea. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Swansea (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include The Second 45 and Left of the Dial Records, plus Valley Vinyl. If a record shop's missing from Swansea's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Swansea record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Swansea

None of the 7 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.

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

The Swansea record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: The Second 45 on 4 Park Street, Left of the Dial Records, Valley Vinyl on 29 Hannah Street, Music & Movies on 3a Oxford Street, Tangled Parrot, HMV on 18-20 The Quadrant Shopping Centre, and James Music. That's 7 stops on the Swansea record crawl.

Record digging tips for Swansea

How the regulars work Swansea's bins:

• Go often, dig briefly at The Second 45. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• Check Discogs before big purchases at Left of the Dial Records. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.
• Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• 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.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Swansea — 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 Swansea can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 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 7 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.