Record stores in Thunder Bay

Record shops reward the patient digger. Thunder Bay, ON has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Thunder Bay — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Thunder Bay (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Sunrise Records. If a record shop's missing from Thunder Bay's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Thunder Bay record lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Thunder Bay

None of the 1 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.

Record digging tips for Thunder Bay

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

• The listening station is the test at Sunrise Records. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• 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 Thunder 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 Thunder Bay can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 1, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 1 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.