Shop owner Callum Nobes said the event happens worldwide and was just for independent record stores. 

“For the event, all record companies put out exclusive releases of classic artists or new bands. Sometimes there might only be 1000 copies world wide, sometimes less,” Mr Nobes said. 

“We put in requests for the titles we want and then they get allocated and you don’t really know what you get until you get the stock.”

Mr Nobes said he expected about 40 people to be waiting outside the store to open on Saturday.

“It’s our busiest day of the year,” he said. “Then the whole day is constant after that.”

The exclusive records started arriving on Wednesday and looked “pretty exciting”, he said. 

“We get constant phone calls and Facebook messages this time of year from people wanting to know what we’ve got,” Mr Nobes said. 

“We usually post a list on Facebook on the night before of all the exclusive titles because they’re the ones that people wait for.”

He said there were a number of reasons an interest in records had resurfaced. 

“It’s the art work, the fact you have to listen to it – you have to put the needle on the record, there is no skipping songs halfway through,” Mr Nobes said. 

“There seems to be a generation that has grown up with streaming or iTunes, not only have some of them missed the CD, but suddenly there is this whole thing that they’ve never seen before.”

Arcade Records will open at 8am until 4pm on Saturday.