by Adam Perry for Boulder Weekly 4/17/2024
Martin Banks fell in love with records through DJing. More than two decades later, the 44-year-old computer programmer from Birmingham, England, opened his tiny Vinyl Café record shop in Longmont last October, selling a mix of new and used LPs.
He says the location on Main Street is temporary as he looks for a bigger space to provide Longmont with a combination record and coffee shop, with hopes for a rooftop patio and lots of live music.
“It’s a really up-and-coming town. There are a lot of people moving here in the demographic that are into the things we’re selling,” Banks says of his shop’s new home. “I considered Denver, but Longmont is a growing community, and the businesses don’t seem to be keeping up with the changes in demographic. People are coming in, like, ‘Wow, we’ve been waiting for something like this.’”
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