Record stores in Adelaide

Adelaide, SA has 13 record stores on the map. That's 13 record shops mapped around Adelaide. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Adelaide (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include CC music and Mr V Music, plus Port Hole Records. If a record shop's missing from Adelaide's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Adelaide record lineup

13 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Adelaide

6 of the 13 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

5 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Adelaide record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: CC music, Mr V Music on 115 Semaphore Road, Port Hole Records on 85 Commercial Road, Size Music on 74 Glen Osmond Road, St Salvi Fine Guitars, Wolfies, Big Star Records, and Under Ground. That's 13 stops on the Adelaide record crawl. 5 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Adelaide

Digging in Adelaide? A few habits pay off:

• The dollar bin is honest work at CC music. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Don't skip the 45s at Mr V Music. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Check for warps in the shop. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Adelaide — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Adelaide can take a while to appear. The 13 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 13 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.