Record stores in Cairns

Cairns, Queensland has 1 record stores on the map. Just the one mapped record shop in Cairns — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Cairns (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is LP Records Cairns. If a record shop's missing from Cairns's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cairns record lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Cairns

None of the 1 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 Oceana Walk — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Record digging tips for Cairns

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

• Note the shop's specialties at LP Records Cairns. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Don't clean records with your shirt. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cairns — 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 Cairns can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 1 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 1 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.