Record stores in Wels

Vinyl hunting in Wels, Upper Austria? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around Wels. 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 Wels (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vinylton and Fritz Harich Gitarren. If a record shop's missing from Wels's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Wels record lineup

2 in Wels, plus 1 more around Wels below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Wels

1 of the 2 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 two mapped record stores sit on 88 Salzburger Straße and 6 Herderstraße — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Wels record crawl

The efficient Wels record crawl strings these together: Vinylton on 88 Salzburger Straße and Fritz Harich Gitarren on 6 Herderstraße — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Wels

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

• Don't skip the 45s at Vinylton. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Go often, dig briefly at Fritz Harich Gitarren. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• Bring cash for the small shops. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Wels — 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 Wels can take a while to appear. The 2 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 2 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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Wels

1 more within about 25 km of Wels, nearest first: