Record Store Day in Prague, Czechia
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 Prague, Czechia
Independent record shops open in Prague, Czechia 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.
- Antikvariat59
Small Strašnice antiquarian shop with over 500 used vinyl LPs across rock, pop and country, plus active record buying; open by arrangement outside its short listed hours.
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- Bazaar CD DVD Vinyl Prague
Busy Nové Město secondhand CD, DVD and vinyl bazaar on Školská street -- a separate shop from CD BAZAR on Jilská -- loved by tourists and locals for deep stacks and a lively, nostalgic browsing atmosphere.
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- CD BAZAR
Sprawling two-floor secondhand shop just off Národní třída with over 20,000 CDs and 5,000-plus vinyl LPs stacked to the ceiling -- a Prague crate-digging institution, upstairs on the 1st floor.
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- CDmusic.cz / Wide Court
Family-run Hradčany shop open since 1992 by the Castle, specializing in classical and jazz CDs plus a full stock of vinyl LPs, books and sheet music, with an ongoing Czech/Moravian/Slovak folk archive.
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- Diskoduck
Staré Město record shop on tourist-thronged Karlova street near the Charles Bridge, stocked with new and rare vinyl including a notably strong hip-hop section.
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- Gram Records
Vinohrady vinyl specialist with 5,000-plus new and used records spanning techno, house, disco, funk, hip-hop and jazz, plus record cleaning, gear rental and pressing services.
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- Gramodesky Letná
Holešovice buyer-seller specializing in used 70s rock and jazz LPs, with in-house VPI record cleaning and vintage turntable, amp and speaker sales.
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- Japan LP Vinyl Shop
Tiny first-floor specialist in Pasáž Černá Růže off Na Příkopě devoted entirely to Japanese pressings -- over 4,000 vintage LPs spanning jazz, blues, rock, pop, country and classical. Cash only.
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- Knihkupectví a antikvariát Spálená 53
Landmark Nové Město book-and-record shop by Národní třída metro, with a large secondhand vinyl selection and new reissues alongside its huge antiquarian book stock; reviews repeatedly cite the vinyl bins.
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- Luft
Holešovice bar with a genuine, ever-expanding vinyl shop built into the space -- house, techno, disco, soul and dub from labels like Dekmantel, Rush Hour and L.I.E.S. Open nightly from 5pm.
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- LXRECORDS
Praha 9 vinyl-only shop with new and used LPs across rock, pop, jazz and classical, actively maintained with a loyal mail-order following despite an early Vinyl World note that misread it as closed.
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- Maximum Underground
Staré Město record shop sharing a floor with CD Bazar on Jilská street, stacked with new vinyl across jazz, rock, electronic, hip-hop, indie and techno.
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- Musicland
Chain music megastore inside the Palladium mall at Náměstí Republiky, stocking new CDs, DVDs, vinyl LPs and merch with mall-wide seven-day hours.
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- Musicpoint
Supraphon-affiliated Nové Město shop on Jungmannovo náměstí selling new vinyl LPs, CDs, DVDs and domestic and imported music merchandise.
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- Phono.cz
Nové Město vinyl specialist open daily except Saturday, with new and used LPs across rock, soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop, a listening station, turntable/amp repairs and record cleaning.
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- Pohodlí
Small vinyl shop near the Žižkov/Vinohrady border, a five-minute walk from Jiřího z Poděbrad metro, open weekday afternoons by phone arrangement.
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- Rekomando
Nové Město book-and-record shop (brand Polí5) with a huge selection of new and secondhand punk, hardcore, metal, indie and alternative vinyl alongside its antiquarian book stock.
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- Time Music Café (Kavárna Muzea Hudby)
Malá Strana café and pickup point for lpvinyly.cz next to a small music museum near the Castle, where customers browse and buy gramophone records over coffee.
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- Vinyl City Rockers
LGBTQ+-friendly Vršovice record shop with a fiercely curated selection of punk, new wave and reggae vinyl, cassettes and rare first pressings; reviewers cite first-press Cramps, Pet Sounds and Gary Numan finds.
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See the full record store listing for Prague, Czechia.