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- DaveO0
I used to love the Oxford Street store, good selection of dance music that was already out & popular, and actually a cracking indie 7" section.
I think it's all cyclical though – the giants die because they can't support their inflated infrastructure, perhaps the independents will return? Maybe only vinyl will survive as a tangible format against the CD?
- Physical formats will still exist in indie shops that can adapt to market changes quicker than the giantspig
- lowimpakt0
- ^lowimpakt
- oooh, wish I went there when I was in Cardiff years ago.....vaxorcist
- if i'm ever in cardiff (unlikely) i'll be sure to pop inhans_glib
- Well obviously, the welsh haven't discovered the Internet yetset
- < This, what on earth is the point now the internet existsanimatedgif
- Was dissapointed I could find anything in there I wanted to buy when I went there.webazoot
- that sounds very dissapointingset
- ah... the mindset of that old movie High Fidelity, describes 90's Wicker Park Record geeks perfectly....vaxorcist
- albums0
Amoeba for life.
World's. Largest. Independent.
- Ianbolton0
I'd hate to see independents totally die out. HMV, to some extent, killed the local record shop back home in the small town of Scunthorpe. That was more down to Scunthorpe being a town with shit music taste! I do think there will always be a vibrant independent music scene. Those who sit there and say all new music is shit, obviously don't look hard enough. I prefer buying my music at gigs as I see the artist gets the cash.
So yeah, generally I don't really give a fuck about HMV. They've bought too heavily into a failing commercialised version of a creative industry, therefore sold themselves out. Stay small. Stay true. Stay alive!
- webazoot0
Not bought anything in a HMV in about ten years and don't even think about going into one. Not really been about selling a wide range of music for a long time, more about selling chart merchandise, computer games, DVDs and electronics. And doing none of that well. If they have any chance of recovering they need to look at what they want to do and do that thing well (Be nice if they went back to stocking a wide range of music again, if nothing else theres not a lot of competition left now.)
- Ianbolton0
@webazoot. I don't think it's about the vast amounts of music they sell, you can get all that online. I think it's more about service, personality and promoting something they believe in. All that is lacking, and is something that should go hand-in-hand in the music industry today. New artists only exist because of word of mouth and the internet. If you can embrace that, then you can build a business structure similar to Rough Trade I guess. For everything else that's disposable and/or mainstream there's Amazon or iTunes. (or torrents).
- Horp0
Goodbye Blockbuster Video too. You will DEFINITELY not be missed you moralising, censorial bunch of hypocrites.
- pang0
Back in the early 90s I used to buy music every week from my local HMV. And I remember they weren't all that cheap, e.g. CD album typically £15-ish, or above if it was an import or Ltd Edt. Can you imagine anyone paying those prices now? Nope. I don't think so.
HMV cashed in when they could... then along came the internet. The board didn't really pay much attention, especially when the iTunes etc all kicked in alongside the likes of play.com, amazon.com. Then the HMV-cash-cow died.
Moooo... ugh.
- i_monk0
- it was Poppy Rose Cleere
All gone now:
https://twitter.com/…
albums - You had a job, the company is going down, your job ended. Employment is not a human right, go find a new job.shaft
- it was Poppy Rose Cleere
- vaxorcist0
interesting twitter feed.... anyone remember FuckedCompany.com?
^^ that's why many companies that engage in mass layoffs ask everyone to report to a different location one morning, ask them for all the passwords, change the passwords, then fire them and make sure the office doors are locked....
...this is pretty much what happened to a friend who worked at a video game company that got ONE BAD REVIEW for a game, they laid off 60 people a few weeks later.... but no interns running twitter able to talk about it...