Spillers Records

Spillers has been selling recorded music since 1894, when it stocked phonograph cylinders and shellac discs, which makes it — by common agreement and its own steady insistence — the oldest record shop in the world. It began as a family business and remains one: Ashli Todd took over from her father Nick in 2010 and runs it with her sister Grace, in a unit in the Victorian Morgan Arcade it moved to in 2015 after a rent rise nearly finished it off. What you get is a proper record shop of the old religion — new vinyl and second-hand, staff who will argue with your taste and improve it, a noticeboard that has launched Cardiff bands for generations. Robert Plant dropped in for Record Store Day in 2026 and was given a plaque; that is the level of regard. A hundred and thirty years selling music from one Welsh city, still in the family, still worth the pilgrimage.