So I was working in Cardiff this week, had a day off and like I always do, went record n book shopping. Finding the city centre shops dull and overpriced and headed out into the more student areas and found D’vinyl (great pun) and it lived up to the title. It’s one of those shops you rarely find these days. Last time I did was a bookshop in Glasgow that was such a mess that you couldn’t find anything.
D’vinyl’s stock was packed in, you had to move boxes to get to stuff, there was a rough alphabetical system but if you just asked the helpful owner what sort of thing you were looking for you would be pointed to roughly the right place. Yet the joy is in stumbling over things that you wouldn’t have normally found. In these days when all shops seem to operate an Ebay level pricing guide it was good to see stuff reasonably priced. I’ll certainly be paying a visit anytime I am in the area. It’d probably worth the 2 hour trip up the M4 on its own
Anyone else got places like this that you can get lost in for hours?