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What Is Record Store Day?
Record Store Day is the one day a year built entirely around shops like ours. Hundreds of titles are pressed specifically for independent record stores — not Amazon, not Target, not the supermarkets. If you have ever wondered why a particular pressing is only ever in shops, this is usually why.
The short version. Labels press limited runs — often a few thousand copies worldwide — and allocate them only to independent shops. They go on sale on the day, in person, first come first served. When they are gone, most never come back.
We get an allocation every year. What we receive is decided by the labels, not by us, and it is never the full list.
Where it came from
It started in 2007, when a group of independent shop owners in the United States were watching record stores close at an alarming rate. The idea was simple: pick one day, get artists to release something you can only buy in a shop, and remind people what a record store is for. The first official Record Store Day ran in 2008. It now happens in shops across the world, usually on a Saturday in April, with a smaller drop on Black Friday.
What actually gets released
The list changes every year, but it usually falls into a few buckets:
- First-time pressings — albums that only ever existed on CD or streaming, finally cut to vinyl.
- Colour and picture-disc variants of records you already know, in runs of a few thousand.
- Live sets and radio sessions that have never been released commercially.
- Reissues of out-of-print records, often remastered, often the only affordable way to own them.
How it works at our shop
Honest answers to the questions we get asked every year:
Can I reserve one?
No, and no shop is allowed to. RSD rules are strict about this — titles cannot be sold, held or promised before the day. Anyone offering to reserve one is breaking the rules.
Will you have the one I want?
Maybe. Allocations are set by the labels and distributors, and no shop gets everything. We post what we have received closer to the day.
Is it worth queueing?
For the big titles, yes. People start early, and the rarest pressings go within the first hour. It is also genuinely a good morning — the queue is half the point.
Leftovers and later drops
Not everything sells out on the day. Anything still on the shelf afterwards goes online, which is what you will find in our Record Store Day collection. Stock there is genuinely limited — once a title is gone we usually cannot reorder it.
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See what we still have from this year’s Record Store Day. Limited pressings, made for independent shops.
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