Record stores in Belleville

Record shops reward the patient digger. Belleville, ON has 3 mapped right now. That's 3 record shops mapped around Belleville. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Belleville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Its Mostly Harmless and Sunrise Records, plus Sam the Record Man. If a record shop's missing from Belleville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Belleville record lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Belleville

None of the 3 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The one mapped record store sits on 19 Dundas Street East — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Belleville record crawl

The efficient Belleville record crawl strings these together: Its Mostly Harmless on 19 Dundas Street East, Sunrise Records, and Sam the Record Man — 3 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Belleville

A few things worth knowing before you work through Belleville's record stores:

• Handle records properly in the shop at Its Mostly Harmless. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.
• Don't clean records with your shirt at Sunrise Records. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.
• Learn to spot reissues. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
• Note the shop's specialties. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Belleville — 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 Belleville can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 3, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 3 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.