In my first half hour, I talk to a range of people from the teenage girl buying Pixies’ Doolittle on CD (classics, especially Fleetwood Mac and Nirvana, sell well among younger customers), an older chap seeking a Jah Wobble album and a policeman seeking witnesses to a traffic accident. Recent Jumbo customers have included Stewart Lee, Fontaines DC and players from Leeds United.
You’re trying to help them Cody Barton, manager Obviously we know our stuff but there’s a fine line about how you speak to people. “At first it felt like filesharing was democratising music but it actually completely eroded the value for artists.” Jumbo manager Cody Barton, 29, agrees, saying that customers like buying physical because it supports a favourite band. Putting a record on and having dinner is so much more of an experience than what Spotify tells me to like.”īacon, who works for Channel 4, has come in for Metallica’s new album and says that the band’s 2000 decision to challenge early downloading site Napster in the courts has been vindicated. We’ve got an old 1950s radiogram that’s got such a warm, beautiful sound. There’s something beautiful about listening to something from beginning to end as it was written on vinyl. “But I found I never listened to whole albums. “At first, to have this insane library of music at my hands was amazing,” she says. Briony Bacon, 38, explains why she has turned away from streaming. My first shift is a Sunday and although I’m not run off my feet, I have a steady stream of customers. “But we’ve got Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran selling masses of vinyl and we still get lots of kids coming in after school going: ‘Have you got the new one by Arctic Monkeys?’” “It is different and you don’t always get that vibe,” says Jumbo’s Nick Fraser, a genial, enthusiastic 59-year-old who owns the store with his wife Justinia Lewis. Eleven are in the Leeds area, although customers aren’t often four deep at the counter. There are 426 independent record stores in the UK compared with a record low of 293 in 2012. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardianĭespite challenges such as the convenience of Amazon and streaming and an often gloomy narrative around bricks-and-mortar shops, vinyl is selling more now than it has since 1990. School of rack … Simpson’s co-workers Jack and Aidan.
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