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:

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.