Record Store Day in Frankfurt, Germany
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 Frankfurt, Germany
Independent record shops open in Frankfurt, Germany 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.
- analogetontraeger
Bornheim record shop buying and selling used vinyl across jazz, rock, pop, blues, world and classical, with over 7,500 titles and the largest classical selection in Frankfurt.
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- Barrett's Revenge Records
Bornheim's smallest record shop, specializing in collectible and secondhand 1950s-1990s rock, pop, indie and electronic vinyl plus vintage and reprinted poster art. Very limited walk-in hours.
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- Big Black Records
Nordend secondhand vinyl shop selling 1970s-1990s records plus HiFi gear, books and DVDs; cash purchases get a 20% discount.
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- City Beat Records
Sachsenhausen record store and label specializing in dance, EBM, electro, house, techno and trance vinyl.
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- Hoppigaloppi
Nordend shop selling used vinyl, CDs, books and prints, focused on indie, electronic, soul, experimental and obscure pop.
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- In Between
The dedicated record room inside Die Röhre, a vintage HiFi shop in Sachsenhausen; secondhand vinyl leaning jazz and rock, plus pop and €1 bargain records.
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- Lucky Star Records
Bornheim shop in business since 2007 with around 20,000 records spanning rock, punk, pop, garage, krautrock, folk and soul.
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- Main Records
Record shop and label run by brothers Christian and Matthias Schildger since 2001 — called 'the last physical record store in Offenbach.' No regular walk-in hours; visits by appointment.
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- Mythos Records
Bornheim record and CD shop since 1999 covering krautrock, psych, prog, indie, punk, wave and pop, also buying records, CDs and hifi gear.
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- No.2 Records
Frankfurt's oldest and largest secondhand record store, in Sachsenhausen since the early 1980s with around 50,000 records spanning jazz, rock, pop, hip-hop, reggae and electronic.
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- Sick Wreckords
Sachsenhausen record shop and mailorder since 1993 specializing in rock'n'roll, garage, punk, funk, soul, psych, prog, jazz and blues.
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- Tactile Record Store
Nordend record store mixing contemporary and vintage new and secondhand vinyl, tapes and CDs, with a focus on jazz, soul, afrobeat, electronica and downtempo.
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See the full record store listing for Frankfurt, Germany.