In The Record Store

About the sound

In the record store.
The sound of someone going through vinyl records in a store was not so long ago pretty much a sound of the past. The last ten years or so streaming services have dominated the way most people listen to music. Visiting a record shop and handling actual LP´s were really not a thing that anyone did expect for small groups of people. But things are “changing back” and vinyl record sales are going up again for the first time in many years.
Why this is happening is hard to say for sure. Perhaps it´s a counter reaction against impersonal ways of listening to music? Maybe clever marketing from the record industry? Anyway; we can see record shops opening up again and also new factories manufacturing vinyl records.
This is a subtle sound of two people flipping through records in a small shop in Linköping (Bengans Linköping). There’s no music in the background during the recording to really show the almost meditative sound of someone searching through a record crate.

Recorded by Fredrik Johansson
Film and photography by Fredrik Johansson