Record Store Day in Liege, 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 Liege, Belgium
Independent record shops open in Liege, 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.
- Carnaby Records
One of Liège's last independent record dealers, on Place Saint-Pholien in Outremeuse, selling exclusively used vinyl and CDs from the 60s-80s and beyond across reggae, soul, jazz, rock and pop.
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- Cultivarium
Liège secondhand culture shop by the old Pont des Arches, buying and selling books, comics, manga, board games, vinyl records, CDs and DVDs under an eco-conscious reuse concept.
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- Jean-Paul Disques
Father-and-son record shop in the Amercoeur district since 1986, stocking over 30,000 vinyl records, CDs and DVDs spanning French and English variety, pop, rock, jazz, blues, classical and metal.
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- Livre aux Trésors
General independent bookshop in central Liège since 2002, best known for literature, comics and art books, that also carries a CD and vinyl-record section upstairs alongside the children's books.
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- Lost in Sound
Liège record shop on Rue Hors-Château since 1988, run by longtime collector Fabrice, selling exclusively second-hand vinyl across psychedelic rock, jazz, soul, world music and reggae, with an in-store listening station.
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- USA Import
Liège fixture on Place Xavier-Neujean since the early 1970s, historically known as a specialist importer of US vinyl carrying limited and special editions; moved in 2022 into the former Banca di Roma building, now also selling CDs, DVDs and VHS.
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See the full record store listing for Liege, Belgium.