I'm Ben the owner of Tasty Records, I've been selling records here in Altrincham South Manchester for around 8 years.In 2012 I had a bit of an epiphany and decided that the corporate life of chasing new car sales figures wasn't for me. So with the help of my sister Emma, who was already running a sweet little comic and pop culture shop in Wrexham, I formulated a plan to open a shop of my own.I took all of my savings and opened a small shop in Altrincham town centre - we sold comics, trading cards, action figures and vinyl records. This was just before the resurgence of vinyl and it would have been tricky to start a new venture only selling records but when we joined up with Record Store Day, it was evident which way I wanted my business to go.Eventually, the shop ended up just selling records and we relocated to a new premise in Altrincham. We've now grown into a bit of an animal and my mantra is that we don't want to sell the most records, we want to sell the best records.My way of life is much better now, and the shop is my baby. It's great being able to get up in the morning and come to work where the first job of the day is taking a record out of the sleeve and putting it on the turntable... absolute bliss.
