{"id":5872,"date":"2012-02-09T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2014-01-03T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:28:41","slug":"the-death-of-our-price-records-brixton-road-brixton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-death-of-our-price-records-brixton-road-brixton\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of Our Price records, Brixton Road, Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

It almost seems like a distant memory now, but it wasn’t that long ago that you’d find big name record shops on most High Streets around the land – like this view of Our Price Records on Brixton Road in September, 2000.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/p>\n

The Brixton branch, opened in the early 1990s, had the distinction of being Our Price’s 300th store,\u00a0although\u00a0it turned out to be one of their\u00a0shortest\u00a0lived.<\/p>\n

The retailer first launched in 1972 and went on to own hundreds\u00a0of shops around the UK, becoming\u00a0second only to the mighty Woolworths when it came to shifting records and tapes.<\/p>\n

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Rebranding ahoy<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the end of the 1980s, rival store HMV had overtaken Our Price for sales, and after some big-business buyout shenanigans involving WH Smith and Virgin, the brand name started to vanish, with stores being renamed as\u00a0VShops.<\/p>\n

This move was bad news for music fans, with back catalogues of CDs\u00a0disappearing\u00a0from the racks as the new business concentrated on flogging\u00a0Virgin branded mobile phones as much as the music.<\/p>\n

Such was the paltry selection of CDs on offer by this time, I started buying most of my tunes from the (sadly) now-vamooshed branch of Brixton Woolworths<\/a> across the road.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Eventually describing itself as a “Virgin Megastore Xpress” (whatever that means), the Brixton store underwent several increasingly glitzy refurbs before finally succumbing to closure some time in the mid 2000s.<\/p>\n

It’s now a Poundland Store.<\/p>\n

\"Music<\/p>\n

Independents live on<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not all bad news for Brixtonites though, as several fine independent record stores live on, like\u00a0Selectors Music Emporium<\/a> on Brixton Hill and\u00a0Music Temple records<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Brixton Village – both stores well worthy of your custom.<\/p>\n

We’ll be running a full feature on all of Brixton’s independent record stores on our sister website, BrixtonBuzz<\/a>\u00a0soon, so be sure to give it a look.<\/p>\n

More:<\/strong> \u00a0urban75 Brixton discussion forums<\/a><\/p>\n

[Our Price story on Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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