The
Discrie started in 1952 in a much smaller premises than this near the city centre.
Stayed there for a couple of three years and then moved to some premises in Hurst Street,
in the late 50s and early 60s. It was started by a man called Maurice Hunting who stayed
the owner and the proprietor until 12 months ago when he died in January 2012. My first
day I had the job of taking off these little sticky labels off records which was something
to do with demonstration copies and I was scared to death because I was told to put
water on them and they were actually on the label in the middle of the record and peeled
them off and they did, but I was worried that the water would damage the actual plastic
which is called vinyl, of course it doesn't cause you to wash records, no trouble at all.
But that was the main memory of that first day and the rest of it has been mainly pleasure
sense kind of thing, yeah. A lot of the customers who still come in, they've been coming in
for years and years and years and Liam, the other lad who works in the shop himself, we
run it together. There's just so many people we know from years ago and even though they
might only come in three, four, five times a year, they always buy something off so it
is good and you can get Christmas cards off people if they can't get in. So people keep
in touch because they're fond of us and vice versa. As you guys work in it, I love it.
What do I love about it? I love music, although I don't have a record collection anymore,
a music collection of all. I got rid of it years and years ago which came in handy for
a deposit on a 3P suite furniture in our first flat we had. I loved it then, I love it now.
Music as I've just said, I still enjoy more and more and more and I just love introducing
music to people but I don't know and I don't think it was a salesman, I hate being classed
as a salesman. My knowledge is huge, I mean that modestly, it's just nice to say to people,
listen to this, listen to that. But yeah, the public, the music, fabulous, great. One of
the lucky people who enjoys his job at work, you know, you can't put a price on this. It's
a colder sound, a bit more clinical CD that is. One that I've probably put this on my
headstone, warmer sound, but see, vinyl is just a warmer sound. It's like if you put
it's arms around your hold onto it. You don't get that kind of sound with CD. But yeah,
when you're picking up, it's just something more personal about it. You see, I'm reading
it, then look at that twice now I didn't, not just me, loads of people, exactly the same.
So it should stay around as part of how people enjoy music, not being trashed into the camp
or at the end of the day.
