Record stores in Quebec City

Record shops reward the patient digger. Quebec City, QC has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 record shops mapped around Quebec City. 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 Quebec City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Musique chez Sonny and Le Knock-Out, plus Sunrise Records. If a record shop's missing from Quebec City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Quebec City record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Quebec City

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 two mapped record stores sit on 664 Rue Saint-Jean and 832 Rue Saint-Joseph Est — close enough to make a single outing of it.

Most of the record stores in Quebec City list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Quebec City record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Musique chez Sonny on 664 Rue Saint-Jean, Le Knock-Out on 832 Rue Saint-Joseph Est, Sunrise Records, CD Mélomane, and Sunrise Records. That's 5 stops on the Quebec City record crawl.

Record digging tips for Quebec City

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

• Handle records properly in the shop at Musique chez Sonny. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.
• Check the dead wax at Le Knock-Out. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Quebec City — 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 Quebec City 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.