Record Store Day in Gothenburg, Sweden
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 Gothenburg, Sweden
Independent record shops open in Gothenburg, Sweden 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.
- Andra Långgatans Skivhandel
Gothenburg's largest secondhand shop for music and film — a sprawling stock of used vinyl, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, plus a large selection of used turntables and gramophones for sale and repair.
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- Armadillo Records
Small Stigbergsliden shop specializing in rock, pop and jazz vinyl mainly from 1960-1975, plus some shellac 78s, CDs, music books and magazines.
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- Avart Records Skivbutik
Alternative Majorna record shop, established 2022, buying and selling vinyl leaning punk and harder genres alongside a mixed general stock, plus new and used band t-shirts.
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- Bengans Skivbutik
Sweden's best-known record chain's Gothenburg flagship on Stigbergstorget in Majorna — a huge floor of new and used vinyl, CDs and merch, long a fixture of the city's record scene.
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- Bullmatin Records
Synth, electro and darker-leaning record shop that opened on Andra Långgatan in autumn 2021, run by Daniel Claeson — narrow hours, narrower focus, no Dylan in sight.
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- Dirty Records
Cosy café, bar and secondhand record shop rolled into one on Andra Långgatan — vegetarian food and craft beer alongside browsable used vinyl and the occasional in-store acoustic set.
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- Discreet Music
Record label, shop and webshop for experimental, jazz, world, noise and DIY music since early 2020, mostly new vinyl, CDs, cassettes and books; moved upstairs at the same Kyrkogatan address in Oct 2023.
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- Linné Skivbörs
Compact, comprehensively-stocked used-vinyl shop on Andra Långgatan since 2012, strong on jazz, soul, reggae and rock, from rare vintage finds to obscure international reissues.
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- Mynt & Musik
Secondhand shop on Stigbergsliden buying, trading and selling vinyl, CDs, books and comics alongside coins — a browsable jumble with a genuinely deep records section.
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- Pan Vinyl
Vinyl and book shop (Antikvariat Pan) in Johanneberg, densely packed rooms of secondhand records spanning classical, jazz, punk and soul, plus a children's vinyl and storybook corner.
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- Peckham Soul
Gothenburg outpost of London's Peckham Soul, at the corner of Järntorget/Linnégatan/Haga — vinyl spanning jazz, soul, funk, disco, reggae, hip hop and world music plus design pieces.
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- Skivhallen Majorna
Used-vinyl shop in Majorna with a broad stock of rare and classic albums spanning soul, jazz, pop, rock, latin, house, disco, prog, metal, hip-hop and folk, plus a listening corner and budget bin.
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- Vinylkjellarn
Basement used-vinyl specialist leaning 80s punk, new wave, synth and Italo disco, that also buys and sells guitars and repairs stereo equipment.
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See the full record store listing for Gothenburg, Sweden.