Long before the digital download, cool kids bought their music from the record store – and took them home in record store bags. There were lost Saturday afternoons flicking through racks of vinyl, seeking something new and familiar amid the often gloomy room bedecked with bands and gig posters pinned to sound-deadening board. The staff would play the new, the rediscovered and the lost sounds to the shoppers. Sure you carried home some terrible music, but at least it was yours, and some of it was great.
And then there was the record store bag:
Keith Prowse Music Store bag, for 45s (1960s) Via
HMV Record Shop, Oxford Street, London, 45 bag. 1965
Slough Record Centre – 1965
45 record store bag for Muzik City reggae shops. 1969
W.G.Stores, Shepherds Bush Market, London, record shop 45 bag. 1965
Hickies Music Shop, High Street, Slough, UK, record bag. 1965
David’s Record Shop, Slough, Bracknell, & Euston (London), 45 record bag. 1969
Rainbow Records, Yiewsley & West Drayton, 45 record bag. 1965
Hickies Music Store, Slough, 45 record bag. 1965
All via EgoTrip
NEMS Liverpool Via
All these via Edinburgh Archive
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All via Record Store Bags
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