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Name: Neil Whiting
Comment: I have just returned home after my weekly browse around my local independent record store, Record Village, in Scunthorpe town centre. As on many previous occasions, I picked up a small armful of CDs and a couple of second-hand vinyl bargains.
However, today is different: the shop now features large wording announcing ‘Closing Down’. It is going to continue as an internet-based store and I wish everyone connected with the venture well. It is a sad day for music lovers like myself.
The number of such shops where you can freely browse is being reduced almost weekly. (As of March there will be none in my local area, if I do want to ‘browse’ I am driving 50-plus miles –, hmm, looks like I’m not browsing!).
Record Village has been part of the music scene in Scunthorpe for over thirty years. I have always found them to be helpful, knowledgeable and I cannot count the number of artists I have been introduced to via RV. All of which is impossible when shopping ‘virtually’, there is no personal touch shopping online!
I wish everyone connected with the new venture ‘all the best’. At the same time I also feel like I have lost a friend.
“Record village - Cheaper than any other is the claim, and the best in money saving sales is the aim, for Scunthorpe's own local record store - Record Village. Now established in its new two floor store on Cole Street, Record Village offers an even wider range of CD's, LP’s, singles and cassettes. The very best quality in second hand bargains are also bought and sold at the shop, which was originally established in the town 16 years ago. The best bargains in town are, almost certainly, available from Scunthorpe’s Music Number 1, Record Village.”