Vol. VII · No. 43 · October 2026
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72 Records

Opens today at 13:00

Notes on
listening,
gathered slowly.

A small, owner-run vinyl shop in central Brussels. Mostly second-hand, hand-graded, written about with whatever attention each record deserves. We don't algorithm. We bought it because we thought you should hear it.

Dig →
Read this week's arrivals A note on selling to us Find the shop
About A Boy
Pl. 1 · Badly Drawn Boy · About A Boy · CD · Twisted Nerve · 2002 · graded Very Good Plus · €5
Very Good Plus  vinyl Very Good Plus  sleeve

I.   Owner's pick, this week

About A Boy.

Very Good Plus cd of Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy. UK & Europe pressing from 2002. Label: Twisted Nerve (TNXLCD152). Genre: Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen, Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Soundtrack. Tracklist: 1. Exit Stage Right 2. A Peak You Reach 3. Something To Talk About 4. Dead Duck 5. Above You, Below Me 6. I Love N.Y.E. 7. Silent Sigh 8. Wet, Wet, Wet 9. River-Sea-Ocean 10. S.P.A.T. ... In stock and ready to ship from 72records, Belgium.

II.   This week, in the door

New arrivals.

Hand-picked this week. Each one a single copy. Three shown below in detail — the rest in the grid.

Dig all records →
Stream
i.  CD · EMI · 2001 Very Good Plus  vinyl & sleeve

Stream — Twarres

Very Good Plus cd of Twarres - Stream. Netherlands pressing from 2001. Label: EMI (7243 533824 2 1). Genre: Rock, Pop, Europop, Vocal, Ballad, Pop Rock. Tracklist: 1. Standing Still 2. Your Decisions 3. Do 4. This Is How It Is 5. Mr. Man 6. She Couldn't Laugh 7. We're Alone 8. Why 9. Wêr Bisto 10. Children ... In stock and ready to ship from 72records, Belgium.

€4 Last one
ii.  CD · Erato · 2017 Near Mint  vinyl & sleeve

Musica Della Capella Sistina / Messe De Nostre Dame — Andrew Parrott, Guillaume de Machaut, Taverner Choir, Taverner Consort

Near Mint cd of Guillaume de Machaut - Taverner Consort & Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott - Musica Della Capella Sistina / Messe De Nostre Dame. Europe pressing from 2017. Label: Erato (9591440). Genre: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Religious. Tracklist: . Messe De Nostre Dame 1-1. Introitus: Gaudeamus Omnes In Domino 1-2. Kyrie (Machaut) 1-3. Gloria (Machaut) 1-4. Oratio 1-5. Epistulum 1-6. Graduale: Audi Filia 1-7. Alleluia: Nativitas Gloriosae Virginis Mariae 1-8. Sequentia: Hac Clara Die 1-9. Evangelium ... In stock and ready to ship from 72records, Belgium.

€14 Last one
iii.  CD · Philips · 1995 Very Good Plus  vinyl & sleeve

Prince Igor — Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra, Alexander Borodin, Kirov Chorus

Very Good Plus cd of Alexander Borodin - Kirov Chorus And Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev - Prince Igor. Europe pressing from 1995. Label: Philips (442 537-2). Genre: Classical, Opera, Romantic. Tracklist: . Prince Igor, Opera 1-1. Overture . Prologue 1-2. No.1 Introduction - Solncu Krasnomu Slava! 1-3. No.1 Introduction - Idem Na Bran' S Vragom Rusi! 1-4. No.1 Introduction - Knaz'ja, Pora Nam Vystupat' 1-5. No.1 Introduction - Puskaj Sebe Idut 1-6. No.1 Introduction - Ach, Lada, Moja, Lada! 1-7. No.1 Introduction - Tebe, Kak Bratu, Ee Ja Poručaju . Act I ... In stock and ready to ship from 72records, Belgium.

€23 Last one

Also this week

III.   Dig

By genre,
by format,
by mood.

Or use the search if you already know. Most titles are single copies, most of them second-hand.

Open the full catalogue

Or by format

LP · Single · CD · Cassette · 7" · 10" · 12"

IV.   Inside the room

The shop has
fairy lights, a listening
booth, and time.

Interior of 72records — records on the walls, fairy lights
Pl. 3 · The front room, looking toward the listening booth.
Turntable booth at 72records
Pl. 4 · The booth — we'll cue anything you'd like to hear.
Crates of records at 72records
Pl. 5 · The crates, mid-Saturday.
Hands cleaning a vinyl record
Pl. 6 · Cleaning before grading — one record at a time.

V.   On selling to us

If they're
not being
played, bring
them in.

A short note on what we buy →

We're open to buying records — single titles, full collections, the box your uncle left you. The way it works is straightforward and we'd rather you knew it before walking in:

  1. Come in Tue–Sat afternoons, between 13:00 and 18:00. No appointment needed for a box or two; email us first if it's a hundred records or more.
  2. We go through it with you, in front of you. We'll tell you what we'd take and what we wouldn't, and roughly why. We won't talk down a record we want.
  3. You get an honest cash offer. The whole conversation takes about half an hour for a hundred records.

We pay better than expected for clean second-hand jazz, soul, electronic and reggae, and worse than expected for the things every shop already has too many of. Ask, and we'll be honest about which side any record falls on.

VI.   Visit

Come in, stay a while.

Address

Rue du Midi 72
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Hours

Monday
13:00 – 18:30

Wednesday – Sunday
11:00 – 18:30

Closed Tuesday — we're listening too.

By metro

3, 4 to Bourse
Three minutes on foot

72 Records storefront on Rue du Midi

The Wednesday letter

One email, twelve records, every Wednesday.

No marketing, no discounts, no AI recommendations. The same dozen we'd put in your hands if you walked in that morning.

Are you sure?