Record stores in Kingston

Record shops reward the patient digger. Kingston, ON has 4 mapped right now. That's 4 record shops mapped around Kingston. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. 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 Kingston (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Kingston Guitar Shop and Brian's Record Option, plus Its Mostly Harmless. If a record shop's missing from Kingston's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Kingston record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Kingston

None of the 4 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 Kingston record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Kingston Guitar Shop, Brian's Record Option on 381 Princess Street, Its Mostly Harmless on 19 Dundas Street East, and Now & Then Music & Videos on 945 Gardiners Road. That's 4 stops on the Kingston record crawl.

Record digging tips for Kingston

How the regulars work Kingston's bins:

• Inspect the seams at Kingston Guitar Shop. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Check for box sets at Brian's Record Option. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• 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 40 km around Kingston — 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 Kingston can take a while to appear. The 4 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 4 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.