HMV goes into administration for the second time in 6 years

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Have fond memories of owning turntables and a mixer thinking I was the next Tony De Vit or Selector C playing new vinyl in the basement. RIP HMV good times
 
Queued outside HMV to buy Be Here Now in 1997 when I was on the way to work. Got one with a card inside showing which number CD I bought. :cool:
 
Doesnt look good for physical media, 3d and 4k discs will be a niche market still, and everyone will kdeep buying dvds in standard definition, or streaming
 
prica's crown said:
What i dont get is, people wont buy in shops anymore, but will pay a fortune for starbucks and the like
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People can afford to pay stupid prices for coffee because they're no longer paying stupid prices for a music collection. You can have access to hundreds of thousands of digital albums every month for the same price as one CD.
 
Seeing as they're closing down, I thought I might be able to complete my collection of Tom Cruise Blu-rays, so rang them up to see they had them on sale.

After checking their stock, they said they didn't have All The Right Moves, but did have a Risky Business, what appeared to be a Mission: Impossible and The Firm was next to Oblivion.
 
silas80 said:
Probably because you can't get Starbucks etc. at Amazon :neutral:
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Just wait until replicators get invented

S.S.R.. said:
Seeing as they're closing down, I thought I might be able to complete my collection of Tom Cruise Blu-rays, so rang them up to see they had them on sale.

After checking their stock, they said they didn't have All The Right Moves, but did have a Risky Business, what appeared to be a Mission: Impossible and The Firm was next to Oblivion.
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You've got too much time to yourself
 
Shame I buy my 4ks largely in there as they are largely the same price online of late, also get the points and get to take advantage of the pure offers of a few 4ks for a tenner. Nee surprise though is it, streaming has all but killed physical media, if it wasn’t for 4k discs I wouldn’t buy media at all.
 
The Man The Legend said:
What tripe.
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I worked there and shopped there.
The only shop in Newcastle that came close to HMV was ListenEar/ Volume

They had every Indie release weeks before Virgin and Callers only bothered if something got to the lower reaches of the chart

I can only your “tripe” assertion is based on the Sunderland store which was set up for chart music and heavy metal but didn’t really cater for a true music lover

Frijj said:
What kind of weirdo gets excited about buying music and plays an album non-stop for two days? :lol:
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The thing is though back on the day, that’s exactly how it played out - by the time an album comes out now, a fan has heard every track.
Album releases were a a big event - if you were right into a band, it was a bunk off school or work and as most albums were released on a Friday in my day , you often did listen to an album non-stop all weekend

Buying records was a rite of passage for many people

mickb2112 said:
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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Absolutely this 100%
 
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