Record stores in Wellington

Vinyl hunting in Wellington, Wellington? There are 6 record shops mapped here. That's 6 record shops mapped around Wellington. 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 Wellington (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Creeps and Wonderland, plus Slow Boat Records. If a record shop's missing from Wellington's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Wellington record lineup

6 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Wellington

3 of the 6 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 Wellington record crawl

Making a day of it in Wellington? Work this order: Creeps, Wonderland on 2 Moores Valley Road, Slow Boat Records on 183 Cuba Street, Flying Nun Records on 173 Cuba Street, MusicWorks, and Over The Hill Records on 208 Left Bank. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Wellington

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

• Ask about the return policy at Creeps. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• The dollar bin is honest work at Wonderland. 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.
• Go often, dig briefly. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Wellington — 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 Wellington can take a while to appear. The 6 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 6 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.