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"Day in the Work Life": Record Shop Owner

These days you can fit your whole music collection in pocket-sized, digital gadgets. But remember when musical high-tech consisted of a needle dropped on a whirling slab of vinyl? On this week's 'A Day In the Work Life'...our regular look at how folks trade time for money...we go ol' school with a record shop owner.

Record store owner extraordinaire Jerry Weber sleeps, breathes, and (apparently) eats vinyl. (Courtesy Jerry's Records)

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