Record Store Day in York, United Kingdom
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 York, United Kingdom
Independent record shops open in York, United Kingdom 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.
- Earworm Records
Independent record shop opened in York in 2013, selling new and second-hand vinyl across indie, rock, jazz, soul, reggae and electronic genres, with in-store listening decks and a collections-buying service.
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- FortyFive Vinyl Café
York's only vinyl-cafe experience, owned and run by musicians, spinning new and used records for sale all day with coffee, grilled-cheese sandwiches and evening live-music events.
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- HMV
York city-centre HMV store on Coney Street stocking vinyl, CDs, DVDs and pop-culture merchandise as part of the national hmv chain.
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- Pitch 22
Small Fishergate shop with an ever-changing stock, buying and selling an eclectic mix of vinyl of all genres alongside books, ephemera and art. Web-discovered addition not in the OSM leads.
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- Rebound
Old-school record shop in central York run by owner David, known for a strong jazz CD and vinyl selection alongside a broad general stock.
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- Vinyl Eddie
Family-run Dringhouses record shop founded over a decade ago by Eddie Parkinson and his father John, stocking 40,000+ new and pre-owned records with a live, regularly-updated online stocklist.
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See the full record store listing for York, United Kingdom.