HMV goes into administration for the second time in 6 years

[James]

The 2 aren't the same tho. One is dead, wasted money on your car sitting in a space. The other is trading for things you want. Both have a completely different feel imo. I think 7 quid parking is an absolute rip off but I'll happily pay 70 quid for a jumper. Might sound stupid but it's the way it is for a lot of people.

I agree tbf. I think the question should be would you accept paying that price for parking if the town offered a John Lewis, high end shops, some nice places to eat, vibrant atmosphere etc? I think 90% of people would say yes. The issue isn't the price of parking imo and never will be (unless it's something mental), but that is an easy one to blame as it's the one you feel in the pocket, even if it's a menial cost.

 

[Duracel Funny]

I was just about to say you can’t gawp at milfs if you stay in the house but the internet does that too

What’s a milf?

 

[steve30000]

What’s a milf?

as if you don't know

 

[Frijj]

You missed out on the pleasure of perusing, feeling the records, soaking up the atmosphere with fellow music lovers etc. You also have to wait for it to be delivered when you could have got it there and then, sprinted home and played it non stop for the next 48 hours, absorbing every note (and then having those memories of excitement well into old age).

What kind of weirdo gets excited about buying music and plays an album non-stop for two days?

 

[mickb2112]

What kind of weirdo gets excited about buying music and plays an album non-stop for two days?

I don`t think he means that literally. You`re obviously too young to remember the days when your favourite band released an album. There were no previews unless lucky enough to get a song on a specialist radio show so you had to wait until release date, go into a shop, buy it, go home and play it. The first time you`d hear it would involve reading the sleeve notes, album credits, looking at the artwork. Just the whole appreciation of music is different now. It`s so disposable and valueless. Downloading an MP3 file or streaming on Spotify will never replicate those feelings that @dangermows describes. That is the pleasure that music brought to many people before the downloading age. I feel sorry for kids these days.

 

[Frijj]

I don`t think he means that literally. You`re obviously too young to remember the days when your favourite band released an album. There were no previews unless lucky enough to get a song on a specialist radio show so you had to wait until release date, go into a shop, buy it, go home and play it. The first time you`d hear it would involve reading the sleeve notes, album credits, looking at the artwork. Just the whole appreciation of music is different now. It`s so disposable and valueless. Downloading an MP3 file or streaming on Spotify will never replicate those feelings that @dangermows describes. That is the pleasure that music brought to many people before the downloading age. I feel sorry for kids these days.

That is a totally different experience, absolutely. Not sure I’d enjoy it but if you grew up before the internet then that would be the norm.

Likewise what you get from Spotify that no record shop can reproduce is a service that knows what you like so well that it can find music from every corner of the globe, from the obscure to the massive, that you’d likely overlook or never encounter otherwise.

They each have their benefits. Can’t imagine having to go and physically buy music now mind

 

[Duracel Funny]

I don`t think he means that literally. You`re obviously too young to remember the days when your favourite band released an album. There were no previews unless lucky enough to get a song on a specialist radio show so you had to wait until release date, go into a shop, buy it, go home and play it. The first time you`d hear it would involve reading the sleeve notes, album credits, looking at the artwork. Just the whole appreciation of music is different now. It`s so disposable and valueless. Downloading an MP3 file or streaming on Spotify will never replicate those feelings that @dangermows describes. That is the pleasure that music brought to many people before the downloading age. I feel sorry for kids these days.

Great post. I just caught the tail end of it and I remember preordering an oasis album, think it was the 3rd one (name escapes me...be here now?) and picking it up from Woolworths in Newton Aycliffe , the line of people was massive!

Something exciting about it and I feel sorry for those that have never experienced it. All I use now is Spotify and Sonos, which is great quality wise but I’d much prefer to go back.

 

[Frijj]

Great post. I just caught the tail end of it and I remember preordering an oasis album, think it was the 3rd one (name escapes me...be here now?) and picking it up from Woolworths in Newton Aycliffe , the line of people was massive!

Oasis? Says it all mind. Awful band and their fan club of forty-something men on here going through a midlife crisis because life hasn’t turned out how they’d like, buying ridiculously priced clothes to look like Liam
Gallagher are pathetic.

 

[Duracel Funny]

Oasis? Says it all mind. Awful band and their fan club of forty-something men on here going through a midlife crisis because life hasn’t turned out how they’d like, buying ridiculously priced clothes to look like Liam
Gallagher are pathetic.

I couldn’t comment as I don’t listen to them now really or subscribe to the above but I’d never be critical of anybody else’s musical tastes. Nice try for a rise though but you’ll need to up your game....

 

[Frijj]

I couldn’t comment as I don’t listen to them now really or subscribe to the above but I’d never be critical of anybody else’s musical tastes. Nice try for a rise though but you’ll need to up your game....

Not an attempt at a rise, I’ve slated this board’s Oasis fan club for a long time.

 

[Duracel Funny]

Not an attempt at a rise, I’ve slated this board’s Oasis fan club for a long time.

Ah right I didn’t realise. They were great in the 90’s and there was something great about the music scene at that time. I think for a long time, creativity mainly, has been stifled but I think this is beginning to change. Lots of good bands now coming through and what the internet and streaming allows for, that cd’s never did to the same extent, is a greater platform to be heard.

 

[shadowplay]

Something that no-one is mentioning is that younger adults are moving about and renting a lot more now, so building a physical library of CDs, DVDs or books is much less practical even if they'd want to. I've had to offload almost every CD I've ever bought at some point.

I can't get sentimental about the loss of the brand. I feel sorry for the people whose jobs are on the line though.

 

[PinzaC55]

I don`t think he means that literally. You`re obviously too young to remember the days when your favourite band released an album. There were no previews unless lucky enough to get a song on a specialist radio show so you had to wait until release date, go into a shop, buy it, go home and play it. The first time you`d hear it would involve reading the sleeve notes, album credits, looking at the artwork. Just the whole appreciation of music is different now. It`s so disposable and valueless. Downloading an MP3 file or streaming on Spotify will never replicate those feelings that @dangermows describes. That is the pleasure that music brought to many people before the downloading age. I feel sorry for kids these days.

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[AB22 Easy Tiger]

That is a totally different experience, absolutely. Not sure I’d enjoy it but if you grew up before the internet then that would be the norm.

Likewise what you get from Spotify that no record shop can reproduce is a service that knows what you like so well that it can find music from every corner of the globe, from the obscure to the massive, that you’d likely overlook or never encounter otherwise.

They each have their benefits. Can’t imagine having to go and physically buy music now mind

You’ll also miss the opportunity to find stuff Spotify doesn’t know you like. I buy loads of vinyl for the reason @dangermows posted

 

[mickb2112]

Something that no-one is mentioning is that younger adults are moving about and renting a lot more now, so building a physical library of CDs, DVDs or books is much less practical even if they'd want to. I've had to offload almost every CD I've ever bought at some point.

I can't get sentimental about the loss of the brand. I feel sorry for the people whose jobs are on the line though.

That brings me out in a cold sweat just the thought of doing that

Great post. I just caught the tail end of it and I remember preordering an oasis album, think it was the 3rd one (name escapes me...be here now?) and picking it up from Woolworths in Newton Aycliffe , the line of people was massive!

Something exciting about it and I feel sorry for those that have never experienced it. All I use now is Spotify and Sonos, which is great quality wise but I’d much prefer to go back.

I also embrace the new and although I hark back to those days of vinyl and do enjoy the convenience of so much music on a Spotify playlist and makes me remember travelling on the train with a bag of C90 cassettes and a Walkman and how much more convenient it is to have access to 100,000`s of albums and songs. I still but physical albums and still enjoy rummaging through boxes of CDs`s and vinyl but I do also use Spotify and MP3`s

 

[Frijj]

You’ll also miss the opportunity to find stuff Spotify doesn’t know you like. I buy loads of vinyl for the reason @dangermows posted

Very time consuming to find such things though

 

[Roaring Chubby]

I honestly don’t give a toss when another chain is in the shit now, peoples jobs aside. Virtually nowt on the high street has anything to offer apart from a whiff of nostslgia. I’ve also begun to notice that shop assistants offer nowt apart from taking payment after you have done the legwork of ploughing through their shit inventory unassisted. I’d bulldoze the lot and replace it with leisure facilities and housing.

 

[EDGE]

Oasis? Says it all mind. Awful band and their fan club of forty-something men on here going through a midlife crisis because life hasn’t turned out how they’d like, buying ridiculously priced clothes to look like Liam
Gallagher are pathetic.

How's the house purchase going?

 

[Frijj]

How's the house purchase going?

You’ve lost me.

 

[EDGE]

You’ve lost me.

Not difficult is it.