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Where to get Vinyl Records in Kuwait

Last week I passed by the vintage radios shop Moqtanayaty and ended up picking up a 1960’s Dynatron Mazurka record player for myself. I didn’t have any music records, nor did the store so I needed to buy some and didn’t want to resort to ordering them online since they would have taken at least two weeks to arrive. Instead, I decided I’d over to the antique shops basement in Salmiya to check and see if they had any for sale there.

The first shop I went into had a large pile of records piled up in the corner of the shop. So I sat down on the floor and started going through them one by one. Anything that was remotely interesting I put on the side. By the time I was done I had found around 14 potential records which I ended up reducing down to 10. The 10 records I decided to go with were actually pretty great and included the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Cat Stevens, Marvin Gaye, Andy Williams, Nat King Cole, Fats Domino and more. The buying process though wasn’t so easy. The shop was originally closed (it’s always closed whenever I visit) but the basement janitor has the key. So I had him open up the shop for me and after I chose the records I wanted, he had to take pictures of each one and send them to the owner. Originally I was quoted KD30 for the 10 records but managed to haggle the price down to KD25 which is pretty reasonable considering the stuff I got.

There are a couple of other shops that had records for sale as well but I wasn’t in the mood to go through their piles so there could be more treasures waiting to be found. So if you’re looking for records, I’d head over to the basement as soon as possible before anybody else does (including me). For directions and more information on the basement, check out my previous post [Here]

Update: Kuwait now has a local online record store! vinyldestination.com

15 replies on “Where to get Vinyl Records in Kuwait”

Got it from KD90, and yes they do have more record players in the store and everything they sell works. They’re moving to a larger location this week as well.

new location is in blockat, across the street from Vol.1, same building at Future Communications, 2nd floor. They’re not open there yet they’re still working out of their current location.

Hi Buzz,greetings. We also sell the vintage record players, however the one which we sell, are little bit cheaper and with an additional features. For an example, the record players which we sell has the in build feature of Bluetooth, turntable, Wi-Fi portable, you can insert flash drive and can record the song aswel.the expensive record player which we have is, worth of KD75. And all of these comes with the vintage looks.

Im looking for parts for a record player, specifically the rubber band or the belt that turns the table, i dont know where to look

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