Vinyl lovers queued for hours to get their hands on limited edition records.

Record Store Day on Saturday (April 21) saw hundreds of music lovers visit independent record shops in Brighton to buy one-off releases.

The annual celebration, involving more than 200 record shops across the country, is marked by artists releasing special vinyl releases exclusively for the day for people to buy in store taking part.

At Resident Music in North Laine the queue at 7am in the morning stretched all the way down Kensington Gardens.

Old and young music afficionados had already marked out which exclusive releases they wanted to get their hands on from a previously published list.

First in line was James Crowe, 22, from Portslade, who had been queuing since 6.30am on Friday and slept overnight outside the shop in a deck chair.

The 22-year-old had his eye on American hip-hop duo Run the Jewels's collector edition vinyl record boxset.

Speaking to The Argus after purchasing the record, some 26 hours later when tills opened at 8am, he said: "It was definitely worth the wait. I am tired now and going to jump into bed straight away.

"But I got everything I came for, so I'm very happy."

Mark Pearce, 58, travelled all the away from Croydon to visit the store. He said: "I got here about 2pm on Friday. We camped out and had chairs overnight - we got though it.

"There are about five different records I want, so that's why I got here early."

Resident's co-owner Natasha Young said: "The turn-out has been amazing, and the queue started earlier than ever this year - helped by the great weather.

"It never ceases to surprise us the commitment people have to buying records."

"Record Store Day gets bigger every year for us, so across the weekend we are expecting hundreds and hundreds of people."

Queues of collectors were also mounting at Vinyl Revolution in Duke Street.

Among them was Tristan Houseman, 16, from Seven Dials, who had been queuing since 4.45am. He got his hands on a limited edition vinyl EP from Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire.

Vinyl Revolution co-owner Rachel Lowe, who opened the record store only nine months ago, said the day had fostered a sense of community among vinyl lovers.

"They are obviously very keen to get their hands on a record from a band or musician they love, but they are also embracing the whole occasion and meeting other people who share their passion for vinyl," she said.

According to a recent hipster study, that made national headlines, Brighton has the highest number of record stores per 100,000 residents in the world, helping it claim its title as the most most hipster city on the globe.