Rough Trade is a retail chain of record shops in the United Kingdom and the United States with headquarters in London.
Rough Trade West, Talbot Road
Rough Trade on 130 Talbot Road
Martina Topley-Bird performing at Rough Trade East, Brick Lane, London (photo July 2010)
Rough Trade NYC storefront
Geoff Travis is the founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops. A former drama teacher and owner of a punk record shop, Travis founded the Rough Trade label in 1978.
Travis in 2016