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:
Long & McQuade
Record store
Long & McQuade is Record store.
RETRO MEDIA Music & Video
Record store
RETRO MEDIA Music & Video is Record store. RETRO MEDIA Music & Video also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +1-604-556-8319
Olde News Vinyl
Record store
Olde News Vinyl — Record store.
Sunrise Records
Record store
Sunrise Records is Record store.

Chilliwax Records
Record store
Chilliwax Records is Record store on 45895 Wellington Avenue. Chilliwax Records also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
45895 Wellington Avenue
Phone: +1-604-392-7090
Verhnjak Piano's
Record store
Verhnjak Piano's is Record store on 15531 24 Avenue, Surrey.
15531 24 Avenue, Surrey
Redrum Records
Record store
Redrum Records — Record store.
Apollo Music
Used record store
Apollo Music is Used record store on 2206 Tyner Street, Port Coquitlam. Apollo Music also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Tu 12:00-17:00, We 12:00-22:00, Th-Sa 12:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
2206 Tyner Street, Port Coquitlam, V3C 2Z1
Hours: Mo-Tu 12:00-17:00, We 12:00-22:00, Th-Sa 12:00-17:00
Phone: +1-778-285-9544

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.
Record store listings for Mission: 8 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.