Record stores in Victoria

Victoria, BC has 5 record stores on the map. That's 5 record shops mapped around Victoria. 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 Victoria (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Allison Piano and Ditch Records & CD's, plus The Turntable. If a record shop's missing from Victoria's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Victoria record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Victoria

4 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

4 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

Most of the record stores in Victoria list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Victoria record crawl

Making a day of it in Victoria? Work this order: Allison Piano, Ditch Records & CD's on 784 Fort Street, The Turntable on 3 Fan Tan Alley, Supreme Echo on 2504 Government Street, and Sunrise Records. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Victoria

How the regulars work Victoria's bins:

• Learn your labels at Allison Piano. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Ask about want-list services at Ditch Records & CD's. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Check for warps in the shop. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Victoria — 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 Victoria can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 5 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 5 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.