The Hell that is HMV

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boudicca wrote:
Obviousman wrote:the expensive lukewarm water place
Shuttit Z that's my local you're talking about there! :evil: :lol:
You'll have to admit the lukewarm water was pricey though :lol:
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Save the money for the forthcoming new Sisters album. Surely it'll be out in time for Christmas.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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boudicca wrote:Aye, they primarily sell tea :lol: :oops:
But they also appear to do a nice line in "quality bargain" crack.
:lol:

@Z.
I didn't even look at the names of the record shops, but I like shops like that where you really need to rummage.
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Pista wrote:@Z.
I didn't even look at the names of the record shops, but I like shops like that where you really need to rummage.
I mostly go to record shops where I like the atmosphere too :lol: And that one sure had it :notworthy: (plus some nice records, don't ask me which ones though...)
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I've decided to wait for this, The Last Gang in Town, innit:
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it's something I definitely need, more info here - http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp ... spid=27906

surely HMV will stock it?
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James Blast wrote:I've decided to wait for this, The Last Gang in Town, innit:
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it's something I definitely need, more info here - http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp ... spid=27906

surely HMV will stock it?
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They don't list books :?
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Dunt!
http://newsthump.com/2011/01/05/hmv-urg ... hit-about/
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I was in my local one last week, doing my usual thing of browsing the blu-rays & chuckling at the prices.

Somebody asked if they could help and I said I was just looking and couldn't believe how they were double the price of their own hmv.com prices in some cases.

They (HMV staff, I remind you) agreed and said that even with their staff discount they go home and buy things online instead too.

I think that says it all.
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I was spitting blood after going in to HMV to buy a new copy of "The Young Ones" (not the Cliff version..) and found that they'd replaced half the comedy section with Twatlight and The Girl who played with the Fiery Tattoo books. Where's the logic in that, do they think someone looking for something amusing will see that and think "That'll do!" instead?
Could be because HMV is marketed towards the same kind of people who read KERRANG! magazine. Boys with skinny jeans and emo hair, and fat girls with metal in their faces and stripey leggings.
I don't know if this is typical of HMV elsewhere, but my local one has a quarter of the store dedicated to chunky IPOD accesories in bright colours, "ironic" t-shirts and a poster rack, another quarter seemingly dedicated 12 months a year to the "Twatlight Saga", another quarter video games, and the final one a music/dvd's of a very limited genre.
And someone seriously ought to intoduce a dress code regarding the wearing of both facial piercings and acne together by HMV staff. One or the other, but not both.
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"Business analysts have come to HMV’s defence, insisting there is still a place for them in the modern high street environment.

Dwight Burrows of McKinley Walton & Pratt told us, “If you’re happy making a trip outside your home and paying a premium to wait for a physical product to be handed to you by a surly teenager, then HMV still offers the perfect shopping experience for you.�

“There are plenty of people who enjoy such misery, so I would suggest HMV begin advertising in various S&M publications.�

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seeing my original post reminds me, I still have eleven quid to spend, think I'm fucked now :|
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I buy at least sixty percent of my music from HMV's online store.
The rest is currently coming from Jack White's Third Man Records - vinyl, it's the recording medium of the future, people!
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James Blast wrote:seeing my original post reminds me, I still have eleven quid to spend, think I'm fucked now :|
I got "Upside Down", the new(ish) double CD of The Jesus Mary Chain as it has a couple of songs that weren't released on the albums or the box set) and the Best of Suede in the two for £10 section (I also got an HMV voucher to burn this Xmas :lol: ).

Also picked up Neu! 2 for £7, but suspect you've got that.

The rest of the voucher is proving harder to shift.
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This thread has taken me back to when I used to skive off school and come up to Glasgow just to go to HMV and Virgin both on Union Street to get all the 12inch vinyl by The Sisters,The Cocteaus and Cabaret Voltaire etc etc, (it was the earlyish 80's)
That was a time when they were proper "record" shops
I think both sites on Union St are now "pound"shops :(
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Taking me back as well, to when I used to live in Goole, and there was ONE train to Leeds on a Saturday at 7.30am, and ONE train back at about 6pm.

I used to spend almost every Saturday in Leeds, all day, browsing through the records in shops like Crash!, Jumbo, Our Price, Virgin, HMV, Vinyl Tap (when it was near the station in Leeds)... there were more, but can't remember them!

Happy carefree days! :D
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one man's tale - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12151157
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Don't like the place myself, but often pop in to see the two for a tenner cds. About a quarter of my store is dedicated to the clearance stuff, so once you get past the David Gray/Coldplay s**t there's usually something.

I went for a Bill Bailey DVD boxset with mine, £50 down to £12.
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matty wrote:Taking me back as well, to when I used to live in Goole, and there was ONE train to Leeds on a Saturday at 7.30am, and ONE train back at about 6pm.

I used to spend almost every Saturday in Leeds, all day, browsing through the records in shops like Crash!, Jumbo, Our Price, Virgin, HMV, Vinyl Tap (when it was near the station in Leeds)... there were more, but can't remember them!

Happy carefree days! :D
Crash! was good, but in my day it was a bit mainstream. I used to hole up in Vinyl Addiction and drool over the Sisters 12"s and then head up to Ubik in Hyde Park for a warm in front of the gas fire and a cuppa while browsing the vinyl. Picked up a FALAA there signed by the original line-up.
I should go back sometime to see how much of my old stomping ground is still there - Rock Shack (the only place I ever found that sold Hard Rockin' Steel strings), Belushi's (do they still have the Blues Mobile?), Salvos (om nom nom nom nom), Tap & Spile, the dodgy collection of shops in the Merrion Market (where you could buy rolling papers stamped with HM Prison Service) - fun times...
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HMV have just closed one of their stores in Nottingham................................

There's still one left there though.
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James Blast wrote:one man's tale - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12151157
Good read, and a memory I think a lot of us share.

EvilBastard: Pretty much everything you mention has gone from Leeds. In the town centre, only the Merrion Market still clings (just) to existence. Salvo's in Headingley still does a roaring trade (you have to book now). You probably would hardly recognise the place.
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EvilBastard wrote:
Crash! was good, but in my day it was a bit mainstream. I used to hole up in Vinyl Addiction and drool over the Sisters 12"s .
Yeah, I think I meant Vinyl Addiction instead of Vinyl Tap, was that the one on New Station Street?
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Anyone in Nottingham been here :eek: ;D
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Was down my local HMV this evening. The CD section has now shrunk to a new smallest size ever. They have a sale on. When does HMV ever not have a sale on? The entire front half of the first floor is taken up by cut-price DVDs. Unsorted. :evil: Upstairs is DVDs and Blu-Ray; a reasonable enough selection, no complaints there, it's the only part of the store that seems to be doing anything approaching decent business. Nothing special though. Going down to the basement and I'm met by a wall of iPod holders, el-cheapo neon-blue plastic in-ear headphones, batteries and USB memory sticks. Hidden somewhere in there is a selection of XBox, PS3 and Wii games. The old heavy metal section they had (which was quite good) is gone. Books are gone. Forget about vinyl. Limited selection of t-shirts.

Yeah, they're f-cked. :(
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Big Si wrote:Anyone in Nottingham been here :eek: ;D
I'll have to check that Robs records out Si.

The best record shop in Nottingham was SelectaDisc. They had everything in there over 3 stores & was a great place to pick up discounted records & tapes that were even only a couple of years old at most.

It closed a few years ago but when I lived here before it was a ritual to go in there every Saturday to get new additions to my record collection.
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originalgoth wrote:
Big Si wrote:Anyone in Nottingham been here :eek: ;D
I'll have to check that Robs records out Si.

The best record shop in Nottingham was SelectaDisc. They had everything in there over 3 stores & was a great place to pick up discounted records & tapes that were even only a couple of years old at most.

It closed a few years ago but when I lived here before it was a ritual to go in there every Saturday to get new additions to my record collection.
I went to college at the Uni and spent way more time in Selectadisc than the library :lol:

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