HMV
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- vaxorcist0
I was teaching a class at an art college a few years ago, and one student said he had done a project on HMV, another student went on and on talking about the the project she had done on Centers for Disease Control, until I realized she thought that HMV was a sexually transmitted disease..... a bit awkward to deal with her confusion as more and more students figured it out before I could formulate a "teachers way" out of this confusion....
- mikotondria30
It's kinda obvious to anyone on the outside how and why an enterprise like this went down - the bulk of their market stopped buying the things they sold in their shops, furthermore the industry related to those products took a nose dive and the only people generating revenue weren't ever going to step foot in the stores as they were then. What's not always, explicitly evident is the organization and structure of the company itself in terms of how ideas about itself and its customers and how to effectively navigate roadblocks and change and thrive. All we see is when it's too late and they've run aground, we don't see the meetings where people who can see the iceberg are shouting upstairs to the wheelhouse to turn the ship - alas too much momentum/inertia not enough leverage or stiffness within the company to make the curve, and it all comes crashing down on the beach like a rotten wooden whale trying to walk ashore.
- GeorgesII0
WHO FUCKN CARES,
Next
Urban outfitters
- qTime0
Funny how pop music on a whole is in decline now.
Who (not the Who) were the last super band?It feels like music was a voice of certain generations now it just feels corporate and lame.
- 23kon0
Just go to Tesco now to buy your Skull Candy fluro headphones.
Sorted.
- Fax_Benson0
They definitely helped kill off the independent shops where I lived. But then lots of the people from those stores went to work in HMV, which helped give it an air of indie authenticity. I think if they'd kept the focus on the niche sections, reasonably knowledgeable staff and excellent ordering service, it might have survived. .
- set0
Fuck em'.
They certainly helped kill independent record shops, who gives a shite if they have been killed by Amazon.
Capitalism is not a sentimental sport.
- ukit20
- Surprising to see digital slump so muchqTime
- It's not slumping, CD sales (and overall sales) areukit2
- Interesting how vinyl and 8 tracks pulled in almost as much in the 70s as CDs did in the early 2000sukit2
- interesting how the industry slumped in the mid 80's.... must have been the hair metal from hell
vaxorcist - There was a recession in the early/mid eighties.ETM
- Those were the days of cheap Compact Cassetteshaft
- http://www.gratuitou…jaylarson
- Music will continue to bomb with the garbage being produced.utopian
- Most/many are just fine with Pandora. I don't have a single MP3 on my phone, not one.formed
- BaskerviIle0
- couldn't be more bang onBaskerviIle
- always so fucking goodanimatedgif
- Yes he is.
Can't wait til he's old and angry.mikotondria3 - Dude shops in my branch of Sainsbury's. He's fatter than he looks on TV.detritus
- ukit20
Remember the days when you had to shop for music at stores that sold CDs for $16-20 a piece? These companies enjoyed a golden age, and now they are being wiped away by technological change/progress.
- yupmonospaced
- A necessary step. It was fun while it lasted.set
- animatedgif0
How on earth did they not manage to evolve? When they saw so many businesses move on or die before it finally got to them.
- detritus0
They've had 10 years to get their shit together and evolve their business, so I've not got a heck of a lot of sympathy.
Branson was clever to sell out of Virgin Megastores when he did...
- goldieboy0
Yes, I'll miss the 3 for £10 deals etc.
Yes, they helped in the demise of the independent stores.
Yes, you also helped ;)
- Ianbolton
So, the great British music store is going into administration. Does anyone care? Did they have a hand in killing the local independent record shops? Or was it just a failing in the music industry? Or was it me, mindlessly pirating that album the other month?