Vinyl boom is 'lifeline' says music shop owner
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BBC Raymond Stewart has seen the trends in music sales come and go in the shop's 50 years
A music shop owner has said the surge in people buying physical-format music like vinyl has a been "lifeline". Raymond Stewart, of Stewart's Music Shop in Dungannon in County Tyrone, said they had "thrown out our LP stands" only to have to search for them again, when demand started to rocket. Twenty years ago, telling someone you had just bought a vinyl record might have prompted a raised eyebrow, and a decade later, the same might have been the case for a CD.
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