Record stores in Whitby

Record shops reward the patient digger. Whitby, ON has 18 mapped right now. That's 18 record shops mapped around Whitby. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. 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 Whitby (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Love Music and Deja Vu Discs, plus Deja Vu Discs. If a record shop's missing from Whitby's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Whitby record lineup

18 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Whitby

4 of the 18 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.

There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Danforth Avenue, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

The Whitby record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Love Music, Deja Vu Discs, Deja Vu Discs, Home Karaoke Ltd., Miga music, Sunrise Records, Bollywood 4 U, and Sunrise Records. That's 18 stops on the Whitby record crawl. 10 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Whitby

How the regulars work Whitby's bins:

• Buy the weird stuff at Love Music. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Ask to play it at Deja Vu Discs. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Ask about want-list services. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Whitby — 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 Whitby can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 18 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 18 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.