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La Gramola - Record Shop in Madrid

Postigo de San Martín. Seven shops at its peak, one left, run by the founder's sons.

Shop
La Gramola
Address
4 Calle del Postigo de San Martín
Town
Madrid, Spain
Established
1984
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, 7"
Crates
Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk, Soul, Latin, World
In the shop
Buys collections

José Antonio Pérez started selling his own record collection at the Rastro in 1984 and turned it into a shop. In the good years La Gramola had seven of them across Madrid; there is one now, on Postigo de San Martín, where it has been for over twenty years, run by his two sons. The buying is pop, heavy, rock and punk in the main, with flamenco, soul and Latin American records - salsa, bossa - alongside. The arc from seven shops to one, still in the family, is the story of Spanish record retail in a single business