Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of The Final Guide.

This week we are talking about Last Shop Standing, the rise, fall, and rebirth of the independent record shop.

Last Shop Standing is a great documentary on the state of record stores in the UK and dissects why the number of record shops went from 2,200 in the 1990s to less than 300.

And we'll speak to Graham Jones, writer and director of this documentary as well as other record related projects.

Here how the record companies employed unethical techniques to manipulate the record charts

and eventually brought their entire industry to a near state of collapse.

Hear the story and definitely check out the Last Shop Standing documentary, which is available

at Last Shop Standing.com.

And today we'll also have a quick chat on a Beatles' white album collectible.

Learn how to tell a first pressing from the others by looking for some printing errors that we are going to share with you today.

And this week we are sponsored by As the Record Turns.com.

As the Record Turns is a great record shop in Hollywood that services the world with original vinyl presses, which are the ones you want to

collect. Get that record from your wish list now by calling Kevin U.S. area code 323-251-4895 and tell him

the vinyl guide sent you. And today's episode is also sponsored by groove washer.com. Playing dirty

records will not only sound crappy, but it will ruin your

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$55 shipped within the USA. Go to groove washer.com right now, damn it. And with that,

let's start today's vinyl guide episode. Do you listen to and collect vinyl records?

Well, you're in luck.

Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself.

Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer.

Hey everyone, thank you for joining us today.

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