Plug Seven Records

Plug Seven is a diggers' shop, not a browsers' shop. Owner-run, tightly curated, and stacked wall-to-wall with soul, funk, jazz, disco, boogie and rare groove — most of it second-hand, a lot of it originals, all of it hand-picked. The kind of room where you flip one crate and lose an hour.

The prices are honest, the staff know the records the way DJs know records, and the selection has genuine depth in areas most Australian shops treat as a novelty — early '80s boogie, spiritual jazz, Brazilian, Afro, disco 12"s. It's the shop Melbourne's DJs actually shop at, which is the strongest signal you can get.

If you have one afternoon in Melbourne and want to understand why the city is Australia's record capital, this is the door to open first.

Second-hand soul and funk 45s, disco and boogie 12"s, spiritual and modal jazz LPs, Brazilian and Afro-Latin originals. Reissues from Left Ear, BBE, Athens of the North and the usual suspects — but the real reason you're here is the used stock.

Walk around the corner to Gertrude Street for Northside Records and Round and Round. Then tram up Sydney Road to Brunswick: Bonnie & Clyde, Lulu's, Sleepless. End in the CBD at Basement Discs or Strangeworld for indie and metal.