Record stores in Christchurch

Christchurch, Canterbury has 3 record stores on the map. That's 3 record shops mapped around Christchurch. 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 Christchurch (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Ride On Super Sound and Galaxy Records, plus Tower Junction Music. If a record shop's missing from Christchurch's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Christchurch record lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Christchurch

2 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.

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

The one mapped record store sits on 1 Picton Avenue — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

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

The Christchurch record crawl

The efficient Christchurch record crawl strings these together: Ride On Super Sound, Galaxy Records, and Tower Junction Music on 1 Picton Avenue — 3 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Christchurch

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

• Genre-hop at Ride On Super Sound. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Don't skip the 45s at Galaxy Records. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Check Discogs before big purchases. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Christchurch — 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 Christchurch 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.