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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Ped Millichamp

London’s best independent record shops - and the top turntables to buy right now

They say cocaine and sugar are the two most addictive substances on the planet. They clearly haven’t tried vinyl. That uncontrollable urge as your favourite artist releases a new album or when rumours of a repress of a classic must-have LP filters through from your network of fellow junkies reverberates through your veins until you have no alternative but to scratch that itch.

You know it won’t go away until that needle (or stylus, but you get where I’m going with this) lands on the surface and injects life into your speakers. The age-old argument that CDs or digital files sound better falls on deaf ears to those who worship the vinyl format. There is no argument; they don’t – vinyl rules.

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