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Record Shopping Is Not Normal Behaviour

Name: The Kilmorna Collection
Address: 23 Church Street, Listowel, County Kerry, V31 V903, IE
Telephone: +353877527051
Price range: €€

Rows of vinyl records in browsing boxes at The Kilmorna Collection

A record shop is one of the few places where hesitation, judgement, memory and mild panic can all be called browsing.

Record shopping is not normal behaviour.

We pretend that it is.

We say things like "I am just having a look," which is the sort of sentence people use when they are already in trouble.

Nobody is just having a look.