Rough Trade reviewProducts, prices, shipping and returns

What Rough Trade sells

Rough Trade sells music releases and the items that go with them: vinyl records, CDs, books, magazines and band merchandise such as T-shirts and prints. Its catalogue spans many genres, and the store carries releases from independent artists and labels alongside its own Rough Trade editions and exclusives. Titles in the current catalogue include No Ordinary Raconteur, Touching Is Punk, Forty Elephants, Fingers Crossed, Recovery, Collected Works, Punk Times Issue Five and Happy, Broken. Some products in the online store are ordered in from suppliers and are marked on the product page as usually dispatched in 5-10 days.

Rough Trade prices

Rough Trade prices its catalogue from 7.99 GBP to 329 GBP, with a middle price of 24.99 GBP across the products read from its public product list. Examples include Punk Times Issue Five at 7.99 GBP, Touching Is Punk at 13.99 GBP, No Ordinary Raconteur at 19.99 GBP, Forty Elephants at 24.99 GBP, Fingers Crossed at 26.99 GBP, From Progfest to Paradiso at 29.99 GBP, Happy, Broken. at 31.99 GBP and Collected Works at 33.99 GBP. Taxes are included in the displayed prices, and discounts and shipping are calculated at checkout.

Rough Trade shipping

Rough Trade ships from the UK, Germany or the US, and the location a product ships from and the applicable shipping rate are shown at checkout. Orders are dispatched within 1-2 days for items held in the warehouse, while products ordered from suppliers take 5-10 days to arrive and are marked as such on the product page. Once shipped, Rough Trade asks customers to allow 15 business days for domestic orders and 30 days for international orders to arrive. Orders whose items ship from different locations are sent separately, with separate shipping costs applied accordingly. International orders may be subject to import duties and taxes, including VAT, which are the customer’s responsibility. From time to time Rough Trade offers free domestic shipping for order values over a certain threshold, and free domestic shipping is available for Club members; products shipping from outside the delivery country are subject to shipping charges. Store collection is offered at checkout where stock allows, with click and collect orders processed in 1-2 days and an email sent when the order is ready.

Rough Trade returns

Rough Trade gives buyers 14 days from the point of delivery to return or exchange an order. To arrange this, customers email the Rough Trade team, and refunds are issued via the original payment method within up to 10 working days depending on the bank’s processing times. Returns are free for domestic orders to Rough Trade’s UK, US and German warehouses, while international customers pay the return shipping cost. Items must come back in the condition they were delivered in, including the original packaging, and items in a non-sellable condition are not refunded. Items bought online cannot be returned or exchanged in Rough Trade’s physical stores. Gift cards cannot be returned. For merchandise shipped into the European Union, customers have the right to cancel or return within 14 days for any reason, with the item unworn or unused, with tags and in its original packaging, plus the receipt or proof of purchase.

Good to know about Rough Trade

Rough Trade cannot modify a delivery address once an order is placed, and orders can be cancelled only shortly after being placed; once an order has been fulfilled, it cannot be cancelled. If an order comes back because of an incorrect address, Rough Trade cannot resend the item, and the customer is refunded the order value minus postage, with the item returned to stock. Rough Trade packs and handles orders with care and asks customers to inspect orders on arrival and contact the team immediately about defective, damaged or incorrect items. Customers can log in to their account to check out faster, and Rough Trade’s own site offers free domestic shipping for Club members.

What was read

These pages of Rough Trade’s own website, on 24 October 2026:

• Home page
• Shipping policy
• Returns policy
• Product list

This page sets out what Rough Trade offers, from what it publishes about itself. No product was bought or tested.