Record stores in North Bay

Vinyl hunting in North Bay, ON? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around North Bay. 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 North Bay (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Sunrise Records and Waxman. If a record shop's missing from North Bay's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The North Bay record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in North Bay

None of the 2 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 one mapped record store sits on 106 Main Street West — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The North Bay record crawl

The efficient North Bay record crawl strings these together: Sunrise Records and Waxman on 106 Main Street West — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for North Bay

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

• Don't clean records with your shirt at Sunrise Records. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.
• Sleeves matter for value at Waxman. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Go often, dig briefly. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around North Bay — 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 North Bay can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 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 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.