Record stores in Geelong

Record shops reward the patient digger. Geelong, Victoria has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Geelong — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Geelong (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Waynes World of Music. If a record shop's missing from Geelong's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Geelong record lineup

1 in Geelong:

What the map tells us about record stores in Geelong

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 171 Melbourne Road — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

Record digging tips for Geelong

How the regulars work Geelong's bins:

• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs at Waynes World of Music. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Geelong — 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 Geelong can take a while to appear. The 1 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 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.