Record stores in Sarnia

Record shops reward the patient digger. Sarnia, Ontario has 2 mapped right now. That's 2 record shops mapped around Sarnia. 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 Sarnia (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Cheeky Monkey and FYE. If a record shop's missing from Sarnia's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Sarnia record lineup

2 in Sarnia, plus 1 more around Sarnia below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Sarnia

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 Sarnia record crawl

The efficient Sarnia record crawl strings these together: Cheeky Monkey and FYE — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Sarnia

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

• The listening station is the test at Cheeky Monkey. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Buy the weird stuff at FYE. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Sarnia — 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 Sarnia 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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Sarnia

1 more within about 40 km of Sarnia, nearest first: