25 RECORD STORES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE
Just as Christmas is a time for spending with family, Record Store Day – held every year in April – should be dedicated to visiting your local vinyl merchant. But that still leaves you with 364 days of the year to travel the world in search of those hidden gems everyone else but you seems to find.
In this list of 25 record stores to visit (ideally) before you die, we have dusty basements, nine-storey ridicuplexes and refurbished former brothels in a trip that takes us right across the globe.
Spillers Records, Cardiff, UK
Proudly billed as the oldest record shop in the world, Spillers Records was founded by Henry Spiller in 1894, selling phonographs, wax cylinders and shellac discs. Two big moves later, first from the Queen’s Arcade and then later The Hayes, the store is now in its second address in
