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NOW CLOSED – due to retirement of the owner. Acorn opened its doors to the public for the first time in 1973 and has been serving the local community from that time until the present day. At first, we were known as Acorn Records but the name was later changed to Acorn Music to reflect the wider range of products stocked. The business has remained under the same ownership throughout, and its philosophy has always been to offer a wide range of music at competitive prices whilst offering a first class standard of service. We have thousands of CDs in stock covering a wide musical spectrum and Acorn has always been noted for its huge range of Rock and Pop from early Rock N Roll right up to the latest releases. There is also a large Classical Music section and plenty to choose from in Jazz, Blues, Folk, Country, Reggae and World Music along with loads of music DVDs including live concerts, videos and documentaries. We have been ordering CDs and DVDs for customers over many years and if we don’t have it in stock we’ll do all we can to obtain it for you. We have accounts with pretty […]

Big Sparra closed on 24 November 2019: It’s come time for team Sparra to sell up and move on with our other projects. We’re closing our place in Glasgow Road, Dumbarton, for good on the 24th November.. What will become of the mighty Sparra? Well Big Sparra the trademark will be gone for good but this wee shop will live on. We’ll let you find out in due course but needless to say the new version will be a great and useful addition to our local community and we wish the new owners every success in the world. Thanks to all of the people who have supported us the last couple of years. We hope you will continue to follow us on social media as we take to the road in our coffee van and continue to roast the finest coffee in Scotland*. We’ve genuinely met some friends for life while running this place and in spite of the various ups and downs we will walk away with fond memories. Regular or 1st time visitor we ask that you join us on the last day 24th Nov for a wee musical jam and some refreshments and we hope to see […]

.1. The Inkwell is an actual physical bricks & mortar shop, located at 10 Gillygate in York. If you can’t visit us in person, we will happily mail you anything you want, whether directly though the ‘Products’ pages, or if you see something in a photo you fancy, email us via the Contact page and we’ll sort something out. .2. The Inkwell specialises in new release & reissue vinyl, and we stock various shades of second-hand LPs too. We like labels like Ghostbox, Numero Group, Light In The Attic & Death Waltz. .3. The Inkwell also sells new & second-hand books. Our books cover all aspects of the arts, popular culture, history and politics. We also like 50s/60s pulp fictions, old film magazines and vintage children’s annuals. .4. The other thing The Inkwell sells is record players. We stock new Steepletone, retro-styled players, starting at £90. When somebody buys a record player we always give them a pile of cheap records for free. .5. The Inkwell is laid-out like an old school classroom, complete with school desks, a blackboard and educational posters. We wanted to make The Inkwell an interesting place to buy interesting things. .6. The best place to […]

NOW CLOSED: Following  the death of founder Alastair ‘Breeks’ Brodie last year  this legendary record shop closed down on 11th September 2020. Former staff have set up a new record shop Thirteen Records Dundee. Welcome to grouchos.co.uk, the online home of Dundee’s multi award winning independent record store. Now in our 39th year and the longest established music store in the city by some distance. Open since 1976 Groucho’s buys and sells vinyl albums and singles, CDs and DVDs as well as providing an unequalled service to the local public with tickets for a wide range of concerts.

NOTE: The Attic closed on 17 August 2019 That’s it the door has closed. Thank you all again that have supported me and the Attic. It’s been amazing I’ve loved it, it is hard to move on but I have to. I have that many people I’d love to thank i can’t you all know who you are X. Sarah Duncombe has been my rock and has made it possible for me to run the Attic. Thank you, your incredible 😘 Thank you and good night all. The Attic is an Independent record store and label (a.k.a TAAR Records) based in Ashby-De-La-Zouch, North-west Leicestershire. It sells New & Pre- loved vinyl, turntables, Cd’s,blu – rays,comics & more. With a stage for venues & events. It is run by Ben Duncombe, and opened under ‘The Attic’ in 2015. It has been previously named Mojo magazine’s store of the month and also, prides itself on personality and getting good music to you at good prices. All contact information can be found on the “find us” page  or on the website’s bottom header. They also run an independent record label Taar Records. Customer reviews of The Attic record shop Never been here, however my […]