Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
I was very generously gifted forty of our British Pounds via an His Master's Vibes credit card. I can't spend them... there's nothing I want that they stock.
I dented it with a purchase of Hawkwind's Space Ritual (£21, worth it for... well... the sleeve reproduction) and The Clash's Combat Rock (I needed it, don't ask -£8).
So that'is £11 left.
I need a lot of music but can I find it in HMV? Can I FECK!
What is that shop for?
answers of "it's a chart shop" will be treated with the contempt they deserve!
10 posts then Trash, whaddya think Simon?
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
I had the same situation myself last year and it was nowhere near £40 that I had to dispose of. More frustrating is that their website is one of the cheaper ones around, and often with the quickest delivery times. But the credit cards can't be used on that.
I don't know what the shop is for anymore - the Croydon one seems split in two halves. The bargain side (2 albums for a tenner, many of them pretty recent) and the side that they will surely never manage to sell (£16 for something back catalogue available on line for a fiver).
I got Being There (classic Peter Sellars film for those not in the know) in the Leeds one yesterday for a fiver. Well worth it. Still leaves you £6 though I suppose...
“I got lost in the mirror, wondering what could have been, I couldn’t help but kill her, but I couldn’t kill the dream.”
My local HMV rocks cos I can normally get new stuff there the week before it's released anywhere else.
Overall the selection is rubbish though, although it was the place where I first got my mitts on the old Sisters singles back in the day. Funny how it is - since they got rid of vinyl, the overall quality and choice has gone totally downhill.
The book or DVD suggestion sounds good.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
Even with vouchers I feel bad spending £17.99 or so on a CD. I had £50 of book vouchers recently and I just couldn't bring myself to spend £9.99 on a book I could read in a week. My brain kept saying "..it'll be cheaper on ebay/2nd hand bookshop...it'll be cheaper on ebay/2nd hand bookshop" even though I would be unable to use Waterstones vouchers on ebay!
James Blast wrote:I was very generously gifted forty of our British Pounds via an His Master's Vibes credit card. I can't spend them... there's nothing I want that they stock.
I dented it with a purchase of Hawkwind's Space Ritual (£21, worth it for... well... the sleeve reproduction) and The Clash's Combat Rock (I needed it, don't ask -£8).
So that'is £11 left.
I need a lot of music but can I find it in HMV? Can I FECK!
What is that shop for?
answers of "it's a chart shop" will be treated with the contempt they deserve!
10 posts then Trash, whaddya think Simon?
Can you not save it for any upcoming family celebrations where you need to buy a "crap" present for that musically challenged relation
BUT THEN I turned to Lost In Music, in De Courcy's Arcade ... Unkle Ja-mes (and other interested Weegie parties), do you know they've just gone and closed that place down?!?!
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
Yeah... one of them will very probably have been Lost In Music.
A real music obsessive's shop, where you could just go and spend hours looking at the Kraut-Rock section (which I'm sure Z did ).
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
... Unkle Ja-mes (and other interested Weegie parties), do you know they've just gone and closed that place down?!?! 
(you even bought something at Lost, Steve)
