Record stores in Canberra

Canberra, ACT has 3 record stores on the map. That's 3 record shops mapped around Canberra. 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 Canberra (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Canberra Music Tuition and Landspeed Records, plus Miranda HiFi. If a record shop's missing from Canberra's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Canberra record lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Canberra

1 of the 3 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The one mapped record store sits on 30 Garema Place — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Most of the record stores in Canberra list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Canberra record crawl

Making a day of it in Canberra? Work this order: Canberra Music Tuition, Landspeed Records on 30 Garema Place, and Miranda HiFi. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Canberra

Digging in Canberra? A few habits pay off:

• Sleeves matter for value at Canberra Music Tuition. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Genre-hop at Landspeed Records. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Check for box sets. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Canberra — 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 Canberra 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.