Leeds locals reflect on vinyls

Ahead of Record Store Day on Saturday 20th April, we discover some of your favourite vinyls and musicians.

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00:00 I love vinyl. The whole ritual, the actually placing of the record on the deck.

00:04 And I was a bit of a hi-fi nut, so I used to get the bet for what I could afford all the time.

00:10 And so that business of taking it out of its cover, putting it on the deck, putting the thing,

00:15 that is just magic to me. It's like making a good meal.

00:18 One of my favorites for vinyl, I would say, was when I was younger, was ABBA. ABBA or Dolly Parton.

00:25 We had Rod Stewart.

00:26 Rod Stewart.

00:26 Yeah, we had Rod Stewart when I was younger. And Culture Club.

00:30 Oh, yes.

00:31 Karma Chameleon, yeah. So I remember playing those and having them on full boat and the needle break.

00:37 With the needle break.

00:37 And making sure you get it in the right spot.

00:40 I personally don't know much about vinyl, but I do have quite a number of friends who are

00:45 quite obsessed with them. So I actually went to a record store last week with my friend,

00:50 who was coming to the UK for the first time,

00:52 and we toured around Yorkshire for a bit, going into different vinyl stores.

00:55 I think one of my friends, he does music, it's called Young Mind.

00:58 If you check out his Spotify and stuff like that, I think he does like,

01:01 he's starting to try and get it on vinyl.

01:03 I've got like maybe 150 records at home, quite a lot. I do like records all day,

01:09 although I try to buy records secondhand because it's a bit more affordable. They're quite expensive.

01:14 I used to come down here back in the day, near the Leeds market,

01:16 there used to be a record shop many, many years ago.

01:18 And I used to have quite a few vinyls back in the days.

01:21 My favorite song is Love Story.

01:23 My favorite singer is Justin Bieber.

01:25 The first time I heard this song, I thought he was a girl, because his voice was so cute.

01:33 Yeah, but we don't use vinyl.

01:36 Yeah.

01:36 I love Jumbo Records in Leeds. I love a good vinyl shop.

01:39 They are also getting too expensive. I feel like it used to be like,

01:43 you could get like a secondhand record for like, I don't know, 10 quid.

01:46 And now it's like 20 something.

01:48 Obviously, I'm Gen Z. It's not really, you know,

01:50 era kind of, but it's coming back into fashion. Definitely vinyls.

01:54 You've seen a few stores pop up. Like there's one in the core that's come up recently,

01:58 one by the Corn Exchange.