Record Store Day in Dayton, Ohio
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 Dayton, Ohio
Independent record shops open in Dayton, Ohio 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.
- Catacomb Records
Metal-focused record shop in Kettering stocking death, black, doom, thrash, and industrial on vinyl, CD, and cassette, plus a listening room and record buying/trading.
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- Feathers Vintage Clothing
Oregon District vintage-clothing and antiques shop since 1978 with a long-running vinyl records section spanning all genres and decades. One of downtown Dayton's oldest continually operating businesses.
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- Huber Music & Video
Huber Heights shop buying, selling, and trading new and used vinyl records alongside CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, video games, and collectibles.
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- New 2 U Vinyl & Vintage
Downtown Miamisburg vinyl and vintage shop specializing in 50s-80s records plus vintage furniture and up-cycled music-based art; buys, sells, trades, and ships records anywhere.
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- Omega Music
Dayton's oldest and largest independent record store, anchoring the Oregon District since 1983. Deep new/used vinyl, CD, and cassette selection plus turntables and hi-fi gear; still family-owned by the Staigers.
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- Skeleton Dust Records
Curated Dayton record shop opened in 2017, focused on noise, experimental, and underground genres alongside cassettes, CDs, books, and zines. Moved into a larger 2101 E 5th St space in September 2023; hosts art openings and DJ nights.
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- Toxic Beauty Records & Poster Gallery
Miami Valley independent record store in downtown Yellow Springs selling new and used vinyl LPs, 45s, and some 78s, plus limited-edition concert and art poster prints; runs the companion Vinylgram.com platform.
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See the full record store listing for Dayton, Ohio.