Record stores in Trail
Record shops reward the patient digger. Trail, BC has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Trail — 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 Trail (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is The B-Side Record Shop. If a record shop's missing from Trail's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Trail record lineup
1 mapped within about 40 km:
The B-Side Record Shop
Record store
The B-Side Record Shop — Record store on 917 Spokane Street. Also worth knowing about The B-Side Record Shop: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
917 Spokane Street
Phone: +1-250-231-5181
What the map tells us about record stores in Trail
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.
The one mapped record store sits on 917 Spokane Street — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.
Record digging tips for Trail
How the regulars work Trail's bins:
- Check the dead wax at The B-Side Record Shop. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
- Learn your labels. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
- Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
- Bring cash for the small shops. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Trail — 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 Trail 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.
Record store listings for Trail: 1 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.