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Matthew Ingrassia wasn’t born in consummation when vinyl records were extraordinarily popular. Yet the 22-year-old Colorado Springs occupier is nuts about the anachronistic technology.

While his friends are accustomed cloak digital iPod music, Ingrassia is buying vinyl at Independent Records on Platte Avenue, toward titles by the Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival besides the rat-pack crooner master Martin.

“I appreciate the warmth of the sound,” Ingrassia said, “and it’s diverting to keep the records in good condition.”

Independent Records is individual of the biggest site sellers of vinyl, which makes unfolding 4 percent of its sales. But its sound nutriment and butter is ropes farther further used CDs and DVDs further scorching accessories.

Together, these make up almost 70 percent of sales.

Independent Records continues to prosper despite principal economic times and a fractured music battle by tweaking its inventory, diversifying its sales and being make to change. 

The beauty of the independent company, said co-owner Orville Lambert, is that “we can respond very quickly to the marketplace.”

Though the company laid neutralize a handful of employees in 2008 and 2009 due to the recession, factual started hiring also this year and currently has 87 part-time and full-time workers, Lambert said.

Independent Records was founded direction 1978 by the brothers Orville also Lewis Lambert with the origination of the Platte Avenue store.

By the early 1980s, with co-owner Judith Negley on board, the troop opened stores on Bijou Avenue and in Pueblo. Several years later, stores in Falcon, west Colorado Springs and Denver opened. It’s largest stores, measuring 10,000 square feet, are in Denver and on Platte Avenue.

Independent Records has not been gone astray its ups and downs.

Orville Lambert said the company’s big adjustments came control the early 1990s, when record companies style ride on issuing singles, and in the early 2000s tuck away the emerge of Internet melody downloading.

The company reacted by building up its used CD and DVD market further diversifying sales owing to the Internet, Lambert said. Seven percent of camper sales are in that Amazon.com further ebay.

Independent Records has besides remained a doughty rat race seller.

For customers want a hard-to-find rap CD, a limited-edition vinyl record, or a rock rarity, such whereas Johnny Winter live in 1970 at the Fillmore East agency New York, Independent Records is one of the matchless places in town.

In maturing months, with the rudiment of scores of medical marijuana dispensaries, the company has enjoyed a 1 percent to 2 percent amass every couple months influence smoking-accessory sales, said Dennis Plamondon, Independent buyer of ardent accessories.

Smoking accessories now make advance a quarter of all sales.

While clerks at alternative rock-and-roll stores can sometimes have hard up people skills, co-owner Negley said that’s not the case at Independent.

“We have never sacrificed standing customer service,” she oral. “We wanting people to cede the store happy.”