Record stores in Mission

Record shops reward the patient digger. Mission, BC has 8 mapped right now. That's 8 record shops mapped around Mission. 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 Mission (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Long & McQuade and RETRO MEDIA Music & Video, plus Olde News Vinyl. If a record shop's missing from Mission's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Mission record lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Mission

1 of the 8 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The Mission record crawl

The efficient Mission record crawl strings these together: Long & McQuade, RETRO MEDIA Music & Video, Olde News Vinyl, Sunrise Records, Chilliwax Records on 45895 Wellington Avenue, Verhnjak Piano's on 15531 24 Avenue, Redrum Records, and Apollo Music on 2206 Tyner Street — 8 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Mission

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

• The dollar bin is honest work at Long & McQuade. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• The listening station is the test at RETRO MEDIA Music & Video. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Go often, dig briefly. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• Bring cash for the small shops. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Mission — 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 Mission can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 8 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 8 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.