Tens of thousands of records up for grabs at clearance sale

RECORD collectors, vinyl enthusiasts, and music fans will have the chance to pick up bargains and rare finds at what’s thought to be the largest vinyl record warehouse clearance sale ever seen in Wales.

About 100,000 items are up for grabs at knockdown prices – from every music genre imaginable at a warehouse in Barry.

It signals a scaling down of the huge record dealing business originally set up by Claire Williams and Mark Owen more than eight years ago.

Mark, who formerly travelled the world as a tour manager, has set up a successful rock management company looking after rising stars such as the Kris Barras Band, Salvation Jayne and Caitlin Koch, while Claire is going to carry on in the record dealing business, but on a smaller scale, hence the reason for the mammoth sale of their huge stock from their warehouse on Vere Street in Cadoxton.

The pair formerly ran Retro-Vibe Music from the warehouse before opening a larger shop in High Street, Cardiff in 2015. The shop stayed open for a couple of years before the pair decided to scale down the business.

Now music fans can enjoy a crate digging bonanza when the doors to the warehouse are opened today.

Claire said: “It’s going to be crate digging on a huge scale. It’s not going to be alphabetized, or by genre or chronologically dated. It’s all going to be mixed up, so people will really have to dig through.”

With vinyl albums priced £2, 12” singles £1, 7” singles 50p, CDs 50p and 78rpm records 50p, there are bargains to be had.

“As we work out way through we have seen Iron Maiden 7” singles. picture discs, some rare blues and American jazz imports, lots of classical 78s, thousands of 12” house, garage, trance, etc. It’s a complete mixture of what’s been stored in our warehouse for about six years.”

The sale takes place from 8am at the warehouse.