Have you really been to a city if you don’t visit one of its record shops – heroically rooting a vinyl out of a wooden box, secreting it under your arm so no one else notices your find and tries to wrestle it from you, and finally sliding it over to the judgy bearded man behind the counter? These shops are so often hubs of communities, meeting places for like-minded people, and pointers as to what’s going on in a city, that not to track one down would be to miss out. Here is the definitive guide to the best record shops in 25hours cities.
