Record stores in Hobart

Vinyl hunting in Hobart, Tasmania? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around Hobart. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Hobart (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include The Vinyl Chapter and Suffragette Records. If a record shop's missing from Hobart's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Hobart record lineup

2 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Hobart

2 of the 2 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 52 Sandy Bay Road — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Hobart record crawl

The efficient Hobart record crawl strings these together: The Vinyl Chapter and Suffragette Records on 52 Sandy Bay Road — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Hobart

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

• Bring cash for the small shops at The Vinyl Chapter. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• Note the shop's specialties at Suffragette Records. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Check the turntable section. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Hobart — 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 Hobart can take a while to appear. The 2 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 2 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.