The world's oldest record shop: on the vinyl frontier since 1894

Spillers Records in Cardiff has served music lovers for nearly 120 years, but competition from the internet makes its future far from certain. We spent a day there meeting staff and customersThe light-up sign in the window of Spillers Records, a suitcase-sized chock of blue and white acrylic, is off. The doors are locked. Outside, a man wearing a woolly hat and headphones checks the time: 20 past. He checks again. Still that.Spillers opens at 9.30am, and it may be to divert the over-eager mornin...

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