Does Music Magpie Take Vinyl?
21 October 2026
If you have been typing “does Music Magpie take vinyl”, you probably already know the site from CDs and want a straight answer about records. On 21 October 2026 their own pages give two different answers, because the shop and the trade-in are not the same thing.
Music Magpie sells vinyl. The About page says the shop sells entertainment “including CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, Vinyl, Books, Games and Consoles”. The music shop says “Prefer that classic sound of vinyl? Shop our Vinyl Store”, and the vinyl store is written for someone “looking to buy vinyl online”. That is a shop. You can buy a record from them there.
What their selling pages list
The pages about selling to Music Magpie list other formats. The same About page says: “You can sell CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, Games, Books and Tech too!” The start-selling page groups what you can sell into phones, tablets, DVDs, games consoles, CDs, books, MacBooks, wearables, games, laptops, headphones, gaming accessories, Samsung phones and speakers. Vinyl is not one of those categories.
Their important selling rules are headed “Selling CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, Games & Books”, with a further section for tech. Those rules do not set out a vinyl trade-in. On the music shop page, the line about turning unwanted items into cash names “CDs, DVDs, games and books”, in the same visit as the invitation to shop the vinyl store.
So the published picture, as of that date, is this. Music Magpie takes vinyl as stock to sell to its customers. The list of what it asks the public to sell to it does not include vinyl records. Those pages do not contain a sentence that says “we buy your records”, and they do not contain a vinyl category in the trade-in. If that changes, the start-selling page is where a vinyl category would appear. This post only reports what those pages said on 21 October 2026.
A barcode on a CD is a CD offer
Music Magpie does use barcodes, and it is worth being precise about which barcodes. The sell CDs page says “To start selling a CD, just enter the barcode”, and it tells you to scan the barcode on the case in their app. That page is about CDs, and it also points you at DVDs and Blu-rays. It does not mention vinyl.
A record is a different object. A lot of LPs, especially ones pressed before barcodes were printed on sleeves, have no barcode at all. The number that identifies the pressing is the catalogue number, usually on the spine, the back cover or the centre label. A checker built around CD cases has nothing to read on a sleeve that never had a barcode, and Music Magpie’s published sell list does not include the format in any case.
It is easy to mix the two up, because the vinyl store and the CD trade-in sit on one website. The vinyl pages talk about buying a record from the shop. The selling pages talk about sending them CDs, DVDs, games, books and tech. Read the heading of the page you are on before you pack a box of LPs.
Selling the records you have
If the goal is to sell your own vinyl, you still have the usual UK choices. A record shop, eBay, Discogs, Vinted and buyback sites each ask for a different amount of your time, and you find out the price at a different moment. Where to sell vinyl sets those options out, including what a buyback site is for.
Some vinyl buyers ask you to send a list and wait for a valuation. Vinyl Buyback shows an offer from the barcode or the catalogue number while the record is still in your hands. Scan the barcode on the back of the sleeve, or type the catalogue number when the sleeve has none. The page shows an offer for that release. You add the records you want to sell and leave the rest on the shelf.
The offer belongs to the release that number matches. A later reissue and an earlier pressing can share an album title and still be different records, which is why the checker asks for the barcode or the catalogue number rather than the title on its own. How much your vinyl records are worth shows where those numbers are printed, and how a pressing and the condition of your copy both come into it. How it works is the sequence after the offer, and the terms are the rules of the sale.
When the parcel arrives in Mansfield, Chris Faulkes checks every record’s condition himself. The grading guide is how that condition is described. A number on a sleeve cannot see a scratch or a split cover, so the check is part of selling here.
A CD collection and a record collection are different jobs. Music Magpie’s site is a clear place to read about selling CDs, and a place to buy vinyl from their shop. For the records on your shelf, use the scanner on the Vinyl Buyback homepage and see the offer for each one before you decide what to post.