Record Store Day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Independent record shops open in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 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.
- Amazing Books & Records
Self-described largest independent used book and record store in Pittsburgh; the Squirrel Hill flagship runs sun-tracking Friday/Saturday hours and a long-running free-beer night.
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- Attic Record Store
Family-run shop in business since 1980, buying and selling new and used vinyl and CDs across genres, with mail order and want-list service, just outside Pittsburgh in Millvale.
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- Dorsey's Record Shop
One of the oldest continuously operating record shops in the country, serving Pittsburgh's Homewood/Frankstown corridor since 1946 with gospel, jazz, R&B and hip-hop, plus media-transfer services.
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- Eide's Entertainment
Long-running Strip District institution selling new and used vinyl, CDs and comics across multiple floors; a fixture of Pittsburgh's record-collecting scene for decades.
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- Get Hip Records
Brick-and-mortar retail arm of the veteran Get Hip record label/distributor in the Chateau/North Side industrial park, stocking punk, garage and psych vinyl alongside the label's own reissues.
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- Groove Gallery and Records
New Bloomfield shop pairing a curated vinyl/CD/cassette selection with a rotating local-artist gallery; opened March 2025 and quickly became a neighborhood buy-sell-trade spot.
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- Jerry's Records
Pittsburgh's largest used-record store, a Squirrel Hill institution with well over a million LPs, 45s and cassettes packed onto a warehouse-sized second floor, plus in-house turntable repair.
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- Long Play Cafe
Lawrenceville vinyl shop and Italian-style coffee bar on Butler Street, mixing new and used LPs/45s/cassettes with in-house record restoration and regular live-music nights.
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- Needle & Bean
Coffee-and-vinyl combo shop in Mt. Lebanon; serves organic fair-trade coffee alongside a handpicked selection of pop and independent vinyl records, with pastries from Potomac Bakery.
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- Pleasant Dreams Records
Polish Hill shop specializing in punk, art punk, crust punk, deathrock and glam-punk vinyl, plus VHS and laserdisc for the tape-and-tube crowd; a favorite of Pittsburgh's DIY/punk scene.
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- Pre Amp Coffee Studio
Squirrel Hill coffee bar from Richard DeShantz Restaurant Group built around a Japanese-style vinyl listening-bar concept: album-lined walls, records spinning all day, and lounge seating around the sound.
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- The Government Center
North Side record shop, live-music venue and bar under one roof, opened January 2019; two floors of vinyl plus a stage hosting jazz, punk, hip-hop and indie shows most nights.
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- The House of Vinyl
New Downtown vinyl and memorabilia shop on the second floor above Sports World Specialties on Smithfield Street; buys and sells records, CDs, cassettes and concert memorabilia.
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- Vinyl Remains
Record store in the Mount Lebanon/South Hills area run by NYC transplants Greg and Jennifer Anderson (formerly of a Manhattan East Village record shop); stocks 3,000+ curated vinyl, spanning jazz, soundtracks, and rock, plus vintage audio gear and art gallery.
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See the full record store listing for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.