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The lovingly-crafted sign above is taken from the Music and Video Exchange in Greenwich, where yours truly was working on Record Store Day last Saturday. Despite the fact we didn’t have any of the (let’s be fair, predominantly pretty rubbish) limited edition records on sale, we still came close to doubling our normal Saturday takings, thanks partly to the other record shop around the corner which was fully taking part, plus a 10% discount on all stock.

It seems the business at our branch was replicated elsewhere: nationwide RSD album sales were up 60% on last year, with singles up 20%, while the average shopper apparently spent around £45. Eight of the ten best-selling vinyl releases over the week were RSD exclusives, while ERA chairman Paul Quirk reckons only 2% of releases have ended up on eBay. Yeah, we’d like to see where that figure stands by the end of the month…