As eagerly anticipated by record collectors globally as the release of the Autumn/Winter Argos catalogue was when we were kids. Or, if you are as old as me (and if you collect records there’s half a chance you will be),… Read More ›
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Take The Test in Modern Record Collecting Etiquette: How To Conduct Yourself In A Record Shop.
Modern life may not be, as Blur would have us believe, rubbish, but it can be confusing. A hundred years ago, if you wanted to blend in to the general throb of your friends at Downton Abbey, you would just… Read More ›
Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday
On the 28 October 1977 a thirty-seven year old Peter Driscoll opened a new record shop at 55 Elm Road in Leigh on Sea. It was the year of Punk and The Sex Pistols, so naturally the UK’s charts reflected… Read More ›
Is It Cheaper To Buy Vinyl Online Or In Record Fairs And Shops?
I thought the answer to this question was self-evident. “It has to be cheaper buying from used record shops and record fairs.” I somewhat patronisingly advised a friend of mine. “Buying records online is more expensive. “eBay is a global… Read More ›
An Alternative Record Store Day at the Post Office That’s Also A Record Shop…
Life doesn’t always go to plan. Take Julius Caesar, for example. No sooner had he come up with that deathless couplet around borrowing the lugholes of various Friends, Romans and Countrymen, his best mate Brutus was rudely sticking a sharp… Read More ›
Retro Sounds Records, Newquay, Cornwall
On holiday in Cornwall this year? Let me recommend a second hand record store: Retro Sounds Records is a small but perfectly formed shop just off the high street in Newquay, a minute from the station and rammed with used… Read More ›
Sneaking Off To Record Stores In Disneyland – A Users Guide
Vinyl records enthusiast? Going on holiday to Orlando, Florida? Want to find a record store? Read on… As an aside to the previous post about Yesterday and Today, I secured my copy of this Beatles record during a holiday in… Read More ›
Every record tells a story 