The rise of the indie record shop
Good news for vinyl lovers - there are more 'mystical portals' on our streets than a decade ago. And I'm setting out to explore as many as possible
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In the week that the Chancellor delivered his Budget for the UK economy (don’t worry, I’m not writing about that), one nugget of optimistic retail news stood out above all the political blah-blah. There are now 461 independent record shops in the UK - 122 more than there were a decade ago, in 2014.
Vinyl sales are also up…
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