Bath Street's infamous record store 23rd Precinct closed its doors in 2009, after the rise of iTunes and YouTube saw sales plummet.
It wasn't the only store that Glasgow lost, with Hades Records and many others disappearing from the streets.
After trading for more than 50 years at the time, 23rd Precinct was struggling to stay afloat - much like the rest of the record shops across the country
Owner Billy Kiltie said it was too much of a romantic dream trying to keep a record shop going in the climate of the time.
He said: “It’s a really sad day - 23rd has been an institution for many years.
“The shop was here long before I took over and we still get customers telling us they came in during the 60s to buy rock and roll records.
“People will struggle to get their hands on the music we sold now that we’re not around.”
Billy took over the shop in 1989, while the shelves were filled with classical, country, and rock.
For many years, Billy assumed the name of the store had come from the police department of Spanish Harlem in Manhattan - until a taxi driver who had known the owner told him this was in fact a myth.
Before long, the dance music explosion of the 90s had made its way into the Precinct.
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Staff at the 23rd were usually DJs themselves, performing at local clubs by night and popping the tracks of the week on for customers during the day.
Vans stacked with vinyls would appear at the store, with the newest releases from the US and around the world - probably the same vans that served Scotland’s other popular record shops like Edinburgh’s Underground Solu’shn and Aberdeen’s One Up.
The 23rd became known for house and techno, while keeping the metal collection through the back.
It didn’t stop here though, with an eclectic mix of imports and unusual tracks.
Glasgow had become a mecca of sorts for the 90s music scene, with the independent record label Chemikal Underground boosting this reputation.
Bands such as Mogwai, The Delgados and Arab Strap came to fruition through Chemikal - and locals quickly resonated with a lot of the music coming from the label.
Chris Connik from the band De Rosa commented on the Glasgow music scene in 2005.
He said: “It was really exciting to hear bands who grew up in the same place as myself, write such amazing music, and get played on the radio.”
Elsewhere in Glasgow the birth of T in the Park was showing up and coming new bands, adding to the growing music scene of the city.
The first ever T in the Park began on July 30 1994, with 17,000 people descending on Strathclyde Country Park.
At the 23rd Precinct, the booming music industry pushed them to open their own music publishing business.
After people started to bring in their own promotional records, DJs such as Pete Tong got wind of the store as it picked up a reputation for new talent.
The store launched its own record label ‘Limbo Records’, as well as an agency for artists.
While the other branches of the business have continued, the Bath Street basement closed its doors for the last time in 2009.
Before long three quarters of the UK’s independent record shops had closed, with 700 across the country in 2000 falling to just 296 by 2010.
It seemed like physical copies of music were set to be a thing of the past, though a vinyl resurgence has been seen in recent years.
In 2017 Sony Music announced the production of vinyl records in-house for the first time since 1989.
Just last year The Guardian reported an 8 per cent increase in vinyl sales from 2020, with 5 million albums sold.
2021 was the 14th consecutive year of growth in record sales, accounting for one in four album purchases.
So, while we may have lost some of Glasgow’s finest record stores over the years - many have survived, and the opportunity for more to pop up seems likely.
