Record Store Day in Canberra, Australia
Two dates to know: Record Store Day Black Friday is Friday, November 29, 2026, and the next main Record Store Day is Saturday, April 17, 2027.
What is Record Store Day?
Record Store Day is an annual event built around independent record stores. The main event traditionally lands on the third Saturday of April each year; Record Store Day Black Friday is traditionally held the day after US Thanksgiving. Both days bring exclusive, limited-run vinyl and CD releases sold only at participating independent shops — not big-box retailers, and not mail order until the in-store exclusives sell through. Because pressings are limited, popular titles can sell out within the first hour, which is why a line-early culture has grown up around the day even at shops that are otherwise quiet on a weekday morning.
Tips for the day
- Arrive early. At busy shops, lines for popular titles can start well before opening.
- Bring cash. A cash line often moves faster than card on a shop's highest-volume day of the year.
- Check each shop's own site or Instagram in the week before the date — participating shops post their own opening time, line policy, and which exclusive titles they've ordered in.
- Release lists are first-come, first-served and vary store to store. A title in stock at one shop may not show up at another, even across town.
- Expect one-per-customer or per-household limits on the most in-demand titles.
- Not every independent record store participates every year, and allocations vary shop to shop — confirm directly with the shop rather than assuming based on a past year.
Shops to check in Canberra, Australia
Independent record shops open in Canberra, Australia right now. We don't yet track which specific shops participate in Record Store Day or what they've ordered in for a given year — check each shop's own site or Instagram close to the date for their exclusive-release list, opening time, and line policy.
- Canberra Vintage & Collectible Centre
Multi-dealer vintage and collectibles centre in Fyshwick stocking vinyl records alongside vintage toys, retro games and memorabilia — a regular source of secondhand vinyl restocks for Canberra collectors.
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- Landspeed Records
Canberra's longest-running independent record store, in Civic since 1994. Voted Australia's best record store in The Music's 2025 readers' poll; large range of new and secondhand vinyl across rock, indie, jazz and more.
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- Revolution CD Belconnen
Vintage entertainment store in Westfield Belconnen mall specialising in retro games, collectibles and guitars, alongside a large secondhand vinyl selection, CDs and DVDs.
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- Songland Records
Canberra's full-range independent record store and Ticketek agency since 1995, now at Cooleman Court in Weston Creek. Known as the 'Home of the Hard to Find' — deep range of new vinyl plus imports, classical and country CDs.
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- Vintage Music and Films
Long-running vinyl and film-media stallholder at the Old Bus Depot Markets in Kingston, trading every Sunday with well over 30 boxes of secondhand records from the 1950s-80s. A market stall, not a permanent storefront.
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See the full record store listing for Canberra, Australia.