Kicking up a stink on Record Store Day

The constant trumpeting of record shops is irksome (Record Store Day, 21 April). In 40 years of buying records, I have found these establishments to be malodorous, untidy and impractical. The same applies to the proprietors, who are also arrogant, unreliable and deceitful. Buying records on the internet and having them delivered in nice brown parcels is so much more pleasant.
Mark Goodall
Whitby, North Yorkshire

• Gram Parsons “single-handedly inventing … country rock” (The biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs, G2, 20 April)? Rubbish! Rick Nelson contributed far more. Listen to his live album recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, in 1969.
Roger Davis
Bisley, Gloucestershire

• Saying “like” all the time (Letters, 21 April) would have never like kicked off everywhere in the 1980s if Frank Zappa hadn’t made like a record of how his daughter like talked with her friends in California, Valley Girl.
Mark Lewinski
Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire

• Talking of missed opportunities (Letters, 20 April), I was disappointed that Tate Britain failed to include any works by Augustus Egg in their latest exhibition. It could then have been titled Freud, Bacon and Egg.
Simon Perse
Landrake, Cornwall

• Prince Charles’ remark to Anita Sethi (Prince Charles, do you think my skin makes me unBritish?, 20 April) leaves me wondering why he’s never got on with his father.
Rod Edmond
Deal, Kent

• Non-plastic cotton buds (Letters, 20 April) are already in the UK. Morrisons has been selling its paper-based own-brand version for weeks.
John Starbuck
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

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