Record Store Day in Ghent, Belgium
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 Ghent, Belgium
Independent record shops open in Ghent, Belgium 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.
- Consouling Sounds
Record shop and headquarters of the Consouling Sounds label group (also home to imprints 9000 Records and Circuit by Consouling), selling vinyl, CDs, tapes and label merch.
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- Dune Records
Record shop in Ghent's historic Patershol quarter.
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- GenX Recordstore & Music Bar
Record shop and music bar in Ghent combining vinyl retail with a bar/listening space.
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- Gold Listening Bar
Belgium's first listening bar, built around a Linn/McIntosh/Klipsch hi-fi setup and a curated vinyl collection from Ghent record dealer Rob Visser; Wednesday sessions run full album plays with the doors locked.
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- Music Mania (Kraanlei)
Second Music Mania location, in Ghent's Patershol district; open all seven days with extended evening hours and in-store sessions, including performances during Gentse Feesten.
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- Music Mania Gent
Ghent's original Music Mania location -- 'Rock & Grooves since 1969' -- with weekly new and secondhand vinyl arrivals across pop, rock, dance, alternative, hip hop, jazz and reggae.
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- My F*cking Records
Hip-hop-only record shop run by owner Jeremy, stocking vinyl, cassettes, vintage hip-hop magazines and rare pressings for crate-diggers and collectors, with a resident shop pug.
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- The Vinyl Touch Gent
Ghent branch of the Vinyl Touch chain (also in Antwerp and Mechelen); new and secondhand jazz, soul, 60s-90s pop and alternative rock vinyl.
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- Vinyl Kitchen
Vintage vinyl shop in Ghent's Zuid district, with new stock arriving weekly (Wednesdays) and regular window-display record sales, including Japanese pressings.
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- Vynilla Record Shop
Independent Ghent vinyl shop taking Bancontact mobile payments, with a curated selection spanning ambient to rock.
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See the full record store listing for Ghent, Belgium.