Flick through the racks and smell the vinyl, because next Saturday is the seventh annual Record Store Day. But before we celebrate real ones, warm up with our rundown of the six finest fictional record shops…
Championship Vinyl
As seen in… High Fidelity
In Nick Hornby's novel, heartbroken Rob Fleming owned this north London vinyl emporium. In Stephen Frears's film version (2000), the hero's name became Rob Gordon (John Cusack) and the shop was relocated to Chicago. What remained, though, were employees Dick (Todd Louiso) and Barry (Jack Black), aka "the musical moron twins", who spend all day making top five lists and mocking customers' musical tastes.
Winston's stall
As seen in… EastEnders
Run by the Cockney soap's longest-serving male extra, Winston's CD stall has been a fixture of Walford's Bridge Street market for 29 years. Characters buy the odd album but Winston (the mainly silent Ulric Browne) was less happy when the E20 Gang stole CDs and Ian Beale crashed his car into the stall. Not that he said as much, obviously.
Trax
As seen in… Pretty in Pink
In John Hughes's teen classic, high school heroine Andie (Molly Ringwald) worked part-time at this Chicago new wave joint, managed by Iona (Annie Potts), who dispensed big-sisterly advice wearing killer 80s outfits. Best of all, it saw the mighty Duckie (Jon Cryer) miming along to Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.
Brokeland Records
From… Telegraph Avenue
Set on the street running between Oakland and Berkeley in California, Michael Chabon's 2012 novel is about friends Archy and Nat, whose secondhand jazz, blues and funk vinyl business is threatened with closure when a megastore opens two blocks away. Archy organises a fundraising gig for a young politician running for the Senate: some dude called Barack Obama.
Teuchtler Records
As seen in… Before Sunrise
The first part of Richard Linklater's romantic trilogy found American tourist Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and French student Céline (Julie Delpy) spend a fateful night strolling around Vienna. Their mutual attraction becomes obvious during a sweet scene in this well-stocked record shop, as they play folk-singer Kath Bloom's Come Here in a listening booth and steal coy glances at each other.
Chelsea Drugstore
As seen in… A Clockwork Orange
In Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novella, delinquent droog leader Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) swaggers into this King's Road "disc-boutique", chats up two lollipop-sucking girls and takes them home for "the old in-out". One of the fictional bands mentioned is Heaven 17, a name adopted by the Sheffield synthpoppers a decade later.
