When city-based shops open their doors on Saturday for Record Store Day, youths who consider themselves retro will be flocking towards new releases from Scottish band Chvrches and even classic rockers Metallica.

At Rutherglen’s Murray Brass Band Treasure Shop, Perry Como is still at the front of the stack.

The store contains all sorts of donated treasures, including a record player capable of capable of blasting out the tunes from a small, but diverse set of records.

Owner Janet Dickins said records were still popular with customers.

“Elvis and The Beatles don’t always last – we put them straight in the window,” she said.

Just $10 later and music-lovers are listening to the songs they way they were intended to be played in the 1950s and 1960s.

Records from lesser known acts could be purchased even cheaper.

Mrs Dickins said customers also purchased records for retro art projects.

“They’re still very useful,” she said.

“We had a bride come in and buy some to use as coasters.”

Both Mrs Dickins and her husband Robert were keen music lovers, even playing the piano and brass instruments themselves.

Mr Dickins also uses a small studio to broadcast a weekly radio program each Thursday from 2pm, reaching listeners within a 20-kilometre radius with a low-powered transmitter.

“It’s a wide variety of music,” he said.

“I always start with a little march segment.”

Even though some of his military march albums are on record, Mr Dickins prefers to use CDs instead to play his tunes – a mix of songs from the 1950s to 1970s.

The turntable in his studio was one donated by the late Indigo Shire councillor Don Chambers.

The nostalgia of records in shops like Murray Brass Band Treasure Shop have taken off since Record Store Day was first introduced in America in 2007.

CD stores across the Border have been closing in recent years with the introduction of digital music taking over for most day-to-day listening.

On a special occasion, maybe only vinyl will do.