Record Store Day in Nijmegen, Netherlands
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 Nijmegen, Netherlands
Independent record shops open in Nijmegen, Netherlands 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.
- Discords.nl
'De leukste platenzaak van Nijmegen' — walk-in vinyl and CD shop with a same/next-day-shipping webshop; free shipping over EUR70.
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- Kroese
Nijmegen branch of the Kroese chain, selling vinyl, CDs and DVDs with 18,000+ titles in stock; sister branch in Arnhem.
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- Obscuur it's a vinyl revolution
Secondhand vinyl, CD and movie shop in Nijmegen.
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- PAAK Vinyl Bar
Cocktail and coffee bar in central Nijmegen built around vinyl, with an in-house record store (Marini Records) for browsing and buying, vinyl-only DJ sets, ping pong and a terrace. Reviewers call out 'digging for vinyl in the lovely recordstore by Marini' inside the venue.
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- Vinylarchief
Large secondhand vinyl and CD shop a few minutes from Nijmegen Centraal, stocking over 40,000 LPs, 4,000 singles, 8,000 maxis and 3,000 CDs across all genres, with new stock arriving daily.
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- Waaghals
New and used vinyl, CDs and DVDs across all genres in the centre of Nijmegen, buying used LPs and CDs daily; sister branch of Waaghals Arnhem, with over 10,000 items also sold via Discogs and their webshop.
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See the full record store listing for Nijmegen, Netherlands.