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'Rough Trade Records began as an independent record label, based in London, England. It grew out of the Rough Trade Shop, founded by Geoff Travis in London in 1976. The record label was set up in 1978 and also went into the distribution business. It became independent from the shop in 1982. It then went bankrupt in 1991, ruining quite a few smaller record labels that they owed money to. Rough Trade was relaunched in 2000. Rough Trade specialised primarily in European post-punk and other alternative rock of the late 1970s and early 1980s.