Birmingham's indie record stores update.
1) The fate of indie record stores appears to be sealed and there's nowt we can do about it. Swordfish's premises are up to let and it'll be replaced by what? A massage parlour? A tattoo emporium? Who knows.
2) Worse still, Tempest Records has reached the end of the road. It's been a slow and painful death. It clung on as long as possible but couldn't swim against the tide of 'on line/download' alternatives any longer. Probably did well to last as long as it did. We didn't shop there all that often to be honest but it was always good to know that if we couldn't find that obscure, and unavailable elsewhere, CD we could always get it at Tempest: albeit for a few pounds more. Perhaps, therein, lies a clue to its demise. Sad, all the same.
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