BALTIMORE — Were you one of those kids that would go into a local record store and spend hours flipping through albums looking for that treasured find?

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Well, Wax Atlas in Hamilton is teaching a whole new generation the magic of an independent music space. Photojournalist Kristi Harper popped by to check it out.

You might have a picture in your head of the vibe a record store owner has.

"That stereotype of, like, the grizzled old angry white dude who’s pretentious as f*ck,” said Andrew Phillips, owner of Wax Atlas.

But that’s the vibe of independent record stores of the past. This place on Harford Road is different.

Phillips has owned the store

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