Endless Music

As the name implies, Endless Music is a secondhand music store that sells racks and racks of vinyl and CDs. Stock is arranged by category with sections devoted to rock, pop, punk, metal, new wave, funk, soul and folk. A lot of the records are too mainstream for my taste — think Madonna to Meatloaf, Bowie to The B-​52s — but I was impressed they had about half a dozen early Dylan albums in top notch condition.
The owner clearly has an equal passion for film and as a result, there’s shelves devoted to film memorabilia, signed posters and photos, videos and DVDs. A note to sci-​fi lovers, they also have a bewildering amount of Star Wars figures and memorabilia. Whether or not they’ll be happy to part with them however, depends on two things: The size of your wallet and the size of your obsession with all things Luke Skywalker!

Confession: I actually didn’t see the original Star Wars trilogy until after I saw the first two of the prequels. I blame my age. Customers of Endless Music may well want to tell me off for this as they stock Star Wars memorabilia. Ah, when those of the male species really like something they really do go to town don’t they. The guys at Endless Music really like Star Wars and they really like records.
They have an amazingly named Ebay shop too — blacktiewhitenoise and their website encourages you to have a look on there for some bargains.
The shop buys records as well as sells them, and it stocks the artists you want on vinyl. If, like me, you are young enough to love the film Almost Famous despite not having nostalgia yourself yet secretly wish you were one of the characters: Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones. That kind of thing.
Because lets face it, you can trawl round every Oxfam in the North West but no-​one gives away these kinds of vinyl — they sell them.