Since 1981
Before the streaming playlists and the algorithm, before half the shops on the block existed, there was a record store on Main Street. Neptoon opened in 1981 and never left — which makes it the oldest independent record store in Vancouver, and one of the few that still files everything by hand.
The pitch has always been the same: real records, kept properly, sold by people who actually listen to them. Collectible LPs in graded sleeves. Crates of 45s you have to flip through to find the one. A back wall of concert posters that doubles as a history of the city's music. Nothing is digitized, nothing is rushed — the discovery is the whole point.
Four-point-seven stars across seven hundred and thirty-five reviews is what four decades of that earns you. People come for a specific pressing and leave with three they didn't know they needed. They come to sell a parent's collection and trust it to people who'll get it right.
"The oldest crates in the city, still being dug through — that's not nostalgia, it's a working archive."
