Meet the music shops that refuse to die

With his ears cocooned in huge shell-like headphones, Ewald Dupan bobs his head to the beat while flicking through 12-inch vinyls in Rough Trade Records in east London. Having saved for months, the 24-year-old teacher is here for two days from Brussels with the sole purpose of trawling independent record stops in search of hard-to-find gems."You just can't find records like this in Belgium," he says. "Shops like this are for people who love music - the staff are knowledgeable and the records are...

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