Sainsbury’s to sell vinyl records in store for first time since 1980s, The supermarket chain will stock LPs by artists including David Bowie, Nirvana and Adele: From Monday (March 21), the supermarket chain will stock a limited range of LPs by artists including David Bowie, The Beatles, Nirvana and Adele in 171 of its stores across the UK. Straight away, Sainsbury’s will have more outlets selling vinyl records than any other UK retailer.
Used Kids record shop to exit campus area in favor of ‘SoHud’ location: With much of the Ohio State campus area being redeveloped, Used Kids Records has become the latest university district business to bow out, ending a 30-year run at its N. High Street site in favor of a new location a little farther north. The move — to 2500 Summit St., just south of Hudson Street, expected within the next six weeks — would leave the campus area without a record store for the first time in decades. Ironically, that comes at a time when vinyl record sales are at their highest point since 1989.
Record Store Might Leave 18th St. ‘Out of Concern’ for Owner’s Health: The owner of an Adams Morgan record store might move his shop due to the condition of its building, which he said last night is affecting his health. Bill Daly, who owns Crooked Beat Records at 2116 18th St. NW, wrote in a post on his store’s Facebook page that he decided not to sign a long-term extension of his lease “out of concern for my health.”
Is the vinyl revival about to get scratched: …although Record Store Day has boosted vinyl sales, some shops now claim that the day, and the format itself, has been hijacked by the big labels. They print pink vinyl collector’s items of pop queen favourites and monetise their back-catalogues of 1970s has-beens, rather than promoting new artists…”How can it be a revolution when the bands and the artists who are looking to the future can’t be heard over the sound of the irrelevant and the dead?”
10 tips when heading to a record fair: The vinyl resurgence has created loads of new vinyl fanatics. And while a lot of them won’t be looking further than the selection of represses in stock at Urban Outfitters, there will be some who want to dig a little deeper to expand their record collection. The answer of course, if the good old record fair. The record fair is a bit different than a typical run to the record store, as its highly likely you’ll be unable to preview them at a listening station.
Vinyl fantasy – The Record Deck casts anchor on the banks of the Lea
A floating record shop is making waves amongst music lovers and providing an alternative lifestyle for its owner: Guilford started the shop as an exit strategy from the rat race. With the pressures of his 9 to 5 job growing, he decided to put his life-long love of vinyl and his modest dwelling together to join the growing ranks of Hackney’s riverboat traders. Currently moored alongside Springfield Park, The Record Deck can count a floating bookshop, a bar and even a hairdresser’s amongst its neighbours.
I ran the official record store of Soviet Azerbaijan: Alex Alekperov opened his record store in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1979, long after the USSR had begun to relax its attitude to western culture. Alekperov had emigrated to the States in the ‘90s, first to Staten Island then to Philadelphia. He now works as a computer programmer in the pharmaceutical industry, and he never stopped playing guitar – he currently plays weekly in north-east Philly with the Alabama Sam Blues Band. His High Fidelity days are long gone, but he was excited to tell his story.
