CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Some record collections have grown up into a new store which opened Friday in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Nigel Ridgeway is co-owner of Miyagi Records on East Garfield Boulevard and now pandemic record collecting and pop-up stores has led to a brick-and-mortar store on East Garfield Boulevard.
Ridgeway tells WBBM people still love vinyl.
"It never went away. It's just been ramping up over the past decade or so against CD sales and that's just vinyl sales that are tracked with scans and barcodes," he said. "It's not accounting for used sales."
Opening the store has been a lot of of work, but it has been worth it as Miyagi records is now one of the few record stores on the South Side and it's part of the Rebuild Foundation, an artist-led, community-based platform.
"I thought it was just going to be a copy and paste, but it's like copy and paste 20 times at the same time," Ridgeway said,
He also said it gives Miyagi "a unique edge against other record shops."
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