Music Stores
Grooveyard
About Grooveyard
Record shops survive on browsing, on the flip through a bin that turns up something you were not looking for. Grooveyard sits at 243 Main St, toward the north end of the downtown blocks, closer to the Okanagan Lake beaches than to the highway.
Music shops are not interchangeable. Some deal in vinyl, new and used, some in compact discs, some in instruments, strings, sticks and cables, and plenty in a combination that has grown up around whatever the local players and collectors actually want. Stock in a used record shop changes weekly by its nature, since it depends on what walks in the door. If you are hunting for something particular, asking whether it can be set aside or watched for beats repeated hopeful visits, and anyone thinking of selling a collection should ask how the shop prefers to handle that.
A stop like this suits the scale of Penticton. The core is only a few blocks deep, parking is straightforward by big city standards, and the lake is close enough that an afternoon can hold both a walk along the water and a proper dig through the racks. Winter is the natural season for it, when the beaches empty out and the valley settles into its quieter months, though summer visitors drifting off Main Street on a hot afternoon tend to find their way inside as well.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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