The Best Little Record Shop - Record Village (Scunthorpe)
When I started out as a DJ in 1987 I had a choice of several places in my home town to buy records from. Our Price, Woolworths, WH Smith, Boots My favourite record shop was Record Village a small independent record shop that was just amazing! Record Village opened around 1976 and had 2 shops in Scunthorpe the main one being 133 High Street and the other in Ashby. My brothers bought all their Punk Singles and Albums there in the 70s and early 80s. I would spend hours in the shop as a teenager trying to find music that I knew and wanted to play as a DJ. I would spent around £15-20 a week on records sometimes more. You could also ask if there were any Promos that they could give you and they usually obliged. Nothing was too much trouble if they didn't have it in they would order you it and not charge you any extra for doing so. I would also dive into what was called the "Bargain Bin" usually singles that hadn't charted or had dropped out of the char