Record stores in Sudbury

Sudbury, ON has 2 record stores on the map. That's 2 record shops mapped around Sudbury. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Sudbury (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Records on Wheels and Cosmic Dave's Vinyl Emporium. If a record shop's missing from Sudbury's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Sudbury record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Sudbury

2 of the 2 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 56 Elm Street and 595 Kathleen Street — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Sudbury record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Records on Wheels on 56 Elm Street and Cosmic Dave's Vinyl Emporium on 595 Kathleen Street. That's 2 stops on the Sudbury record crawl.

Record digging tips for Sudbury

Digging in Sudbury? A few habits pay off:

• Hit the new-arrivals bin first at Records on Wheels. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Don't clean records with your shirt at Cosmic Dave's Vinyl Emporium. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• The listening station is the test. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Sudbury — 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 Sudbury 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.