Record Store Day in Winnipeg, Canada
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 Winnipeg, Canada
Independent record shops open in Winnipeg, Canada 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.
- Argy's Records & Entertainment Shop
Winnipeg's vinyl specialists since 1982, on St. Mary's Road since 1989, selling new and used records, CDs and entertainment collectables.
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- Duly Records
Downtown Winnipeg vinyl shop on Portage Avenue run by Peter Dul, stocking records for the local crate-digging community; recent posts confirm active current trading.
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- Eye And Ear Control Records
Appointment-only vinyl retailer and mail-order specialist in the Exchange District obsessively focused on black metal, death metal, grindcore, punk, doom, sludge and noise.
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- Into the Music
Winnipeg's largest independent record store since 1987, now in the historic Exchange District with an in-store performance space, four listening stations and the city's biggest new/used vinyl selection.
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- Old Gold Vintage Vinyl
Boutique used & vintage vinyl shop in Historic Osborne Village since 2018, stocking rock, jazz, funk, reggae and soul plus rare international titles and a bargain section.
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- War on Music
Winnipeg punk/metal/hardcore record store and vinyl-only label carrying releases from bands like Razor, Sacrifice, Voivod, Gorguts and Propagandhi, plus wholesale/distro accounts.
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- Wild Planet Music
Officially-licensed band merch store on Osborne Street combining new vinyl records with apparel, posters and collectibles across rock, metal, punk and hip-hop.
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- Winnipeg Record & Tape Co.
Independent new & used record shop on Wellington Avenue with a curated in-store selection backed by a larger mail-order catalogue; recommends calling ahead to confirm stock.
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See the full record store listing for Winnipeg, Canada.