A hobby that turned into a business: Black Hills Vinyl [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Black Hills Vinyl is a record store and disc golf shop located in downtown Rapid City that has been around for about 13 years.

“We’ve grown the store over that from a small boutique business to occupying a huge space downtown,” Michael Calabrese, co-owner of Black Hills Vinyl, said.

The store started as just a hobby of collecting vinyls.

“It all started with us being collectors and looking for records online. We ended up finding a record store and then honestly a new life here in South Dakota,” Calabrese said.

Although Calabrese and his wife collected records, he explains how he was able to turn this hobby into a business.

“For us, it was a matter of coming into a lot of extra things. Maybe you find that great copy of a record and then later on down the line, you find a better copy. And so, that’s really how we started,” Calabrese …