Record stores in Taos

Record shops reward the patient digger. Taos, New Mexico has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Taos — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Taos (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Heads Up. If a record shop's missing from Taos's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Taos record lineup

1 in Taos:

What the map tells us about record stores in Taos

None of the 1 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.

Record digging tips for Taos

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

• Ask about want-list services at Heads Up. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Check the turntable section. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Taos — 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 Taos can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 1, 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 1 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.