Record stores in Winnipeg
Vinyl hunting in Winnipeg, MB? There are 7 record shops mapped here. That's 7 record shops mapped around Winnipeg. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. 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 Winnipeg (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include War on Music and Old Gold Vintage Vinyl Record Shop, plus Sunrise Records. If a record shop's missing from Winnipeg's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Winnipeg record lineup
7 mapped within about 40 km:
War on Music
Record store
War on Music — Record store, found on 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg.
91 Albert Street, Winnipeg
Old Gold Vintage Vinyl Record Shop
Record store
Old Gold Vintage Vinyl Record Shop — Record store.
Sunrise Records
Record store
Sunrise Records is Record store.
Folk Festival Music Store
Record store
Folk Festival Music Store is Record store.
Into the Music
Record store
Into the Music is Record store on 245 McDermot Avenue. Into the Music also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th,Sa 10:30-18:00; Fr 10:30-21:00; Su 11:00-17:00.
245 McDermot Avenue
Hours: Mo-Th,Sa 10:30-18:00; Fr 10:30-21:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Duly Records
Record store
Duly Records — Record store on 557 Portage Avenue.
557 Portage Avenue
Wild Planet Music
Record store
Wild Planet Music — Record store on 217 Osborne Street. Also worth knowing about Wild Planet Music: the map lists its hours as Mo-We 11:00-19:00; Th-Fr 11:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
217 Osborne Street, R3L 1Z4
Hours: Mo-We 11:00-19:00; Th-Fr 11:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-18:00; Su 12:00-17:30
Phone: +1 204-956-4400

What the map tells us about record stores in Winnipeg
2 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.
The Winnipeg record crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: War on Music on 91 Albert Street, Old Gold Vintage Vinyl Record Shop, Sunrise Records, Folk Festival Music Store, Into the Music on 245 McDermot Avenue, Duly Records on 557 Portage Avenue, and Wild Planet Music on 217 Osborne Street. That's 7 stops on the Winnipeg record crawl.
Record digging tips for Winnipeg
A few things worth knowing before you work through Winnipeg's record stores:
- The listening station is the test at War on Music. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
- Hit the new-arrivals bin first at Old Gold Vintage Vinyl Record Shop. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
- Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
- Don't overlook cassettes and CDs. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Winnipeg — 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 Winnipeg can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 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 7 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 Winnipeg: 7 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.