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Are you old enough to remember when hi-fi shops were abundant and a visit to your local store was an event — especially when a new product or technology was introduced?

Or maybe you remember it differently…

Sound&Vision’s Tom Norton recently passed along a hilarious video from the British television comedy show Not the Nine O’Clock News that was broadcast on BBC2 from 1979 to 1982. We thought it was worth sharing here.

In the sketch, an unsuspecting customer (Mel Smith) walks into a ‘70s-era hi-fi shop and is ridiculed by two wise-cracking salesmen (Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones).

Share your most memorable hi-fi shop stories.

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