Record stores in Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida has 5 record stores on the map. That's 5 record shops mapped around Jacksonville. 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 Jacksonville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include FYE and Tiger Records, plus Clark's Music Center. If a record shop's missing from Jacksonville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Jacksonville record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Jacksonville

1 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The Jacksonville record crawl

Making a day of it in Jacksonville? Work this order: FYE, Tiger Records, Clark's Music Center, Deep Search Records on 822 Lomax Street, and Yesterday & Today Records on 1522 Hendricks Avenue. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Jacksonville

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

• Note the shop's specialties at FYE. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Visit on restock days at Tiger Records. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• The listening station is the test. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Ask the staff what's new. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Jacksonville — 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 Jacksonville can take a while to appear. The 5 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 5 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.