Record stores in Townsville

Vinyl hunting in Townsville, Queensland? There are 1 record shops mapped here. Just the one mapped record shop in Townsville — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. 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 Townsville (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Rock Ape Records. If a record shop's missing from Townsville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Townsville record lineup

1 in Townsville:

What the map tells us about record stores in Townsville

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 Townsville

How the regulars work Townsville's bins:

• Sleeves matter for value at Rock Ape Records. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• Handle records properly in the shop. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Townsville — 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 Townsville can take a while to appear. The 1 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 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.