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spencer
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 12:55
A reporter on News24 has just said that he's spoken to two HMV high-ups who said that administration was a result of poorer than anticipated Xmas sales..and a problem with the supply of tablet computers. Were presenting sound plans for the business to the administrators.
Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 12:57
anthonyqkiernan wrote:
Moon Cat wrote:
And it's a nice little place to potter round.

The problem with HMV, for me, had been its lack of rummagibility or potteringness


Tis now, yes. But in days of yore the ones I went in were quite good for that. There'd be three floors of potteringness sometimes and vast specialised sections of...'stuff'.

It's a shame. I think the people that worked in the jazz/classical/folk et al bit went from a whole underground domain, itself with the classical bit sectioned off behind quietly hinged glass doors, it's own little tranquil, serene world of tweedy potterers, to working in a skip out back.
Kid Calamity
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:03
A good overview here, too: http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-hmv-administration-staff-sacked-downloads-piracy-online.html
Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:03
Squid Tempest wrote:
I'm also worried about the death of town centres. Before long all that will be left will be cafes, and they'll go out of business coz no-one has any reason to visit the town centre anymore. Whole communities will die because of the shrinking of the retail sector.

Dark times.


Well, that is indeed the bleak possibility and something that looks all too evident in smaller towns already.

That and we ourselves mutate into near protoplasmic, sentient globs, limbs atrophied from lack of use, using our pseudo-podular growths to click on "One Click Buy" on our touchscreen devices and await delivery by pneumato-tube of our flavoured protein supplement for the day.
Spaceship mark
Spaceship mark
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:04
I always thought those glass classical boxes in the big HMVs were hilarious, I imagined tweedy classical types running through the store, hands over ears, to get through those doors to sanctuary from all that noisy modern music...
Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:14
One recentish development in Manchester (and I've seen it elsewhere) is the appearance on the high-street and in shopping centres of Music/DVD/Game shops that, although chain-stores, operate as part end-of-line shop and part 2nd hand and/or trading post. Bee and That's Entertainment to name but two. They sell cheap end-of-line cds and second hand stuff, some of which I think maybe from other, now defunct, places as well as from individuals.

It seems, what with the online equivalents like eBay and traders on Amazon et al, the age-old tradition of barter is manifesting itself quite profoundly as an alternative to more conventional transactions.

Maybe I can get a Zep box set for these magic beans?
Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:17
Spaceship mark wrote:
I always thought those glass classical boxes in the big HMVs were hilarious, I imagined tweedy classical types running through the store, hands over ears, to get through those doors to sanctuary from all that noisy modern music...


Yes, that often seemed to be the case. I must admit though, I did enjoy some moments of mostly aimless drifting about such places for that peaceful vibe.
It was like having a handy chill-out room in a bustling city centre to go and have some time-out from the modern living maelstrom.
anthonyqkiernan
anthonyqkiernan
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:21
Moon Cat wrote:
if the physical side of the market will just be whittled down to a collecters market, with such items being sold in dark corners or specialist haunts populated by the music equivalent of antique dealers, happy (and presumably able) to pay inflated prices for limited editions and so on.

HMV's problem is not that folk are downloading the new Gnod album and not buying the 12"gatefold from them. (Not reall saying that's your point, this just seems as good a place as any to make this point.) HMV would rather not bother selling you that. Major labels release a fraction of the titles they used to, relying on the one or two biggies and abandoning traditional A&R. These titles are bought by people in supermarket queues. That's the market they concentrated on. Hence being so frequently able to find he few choice titles reduced to clear

It's commerce that's simply wanted a chunk of a market it has not real tradition with. Hence the clothing lines and move to gadgety stuff (despite all the traditional companies in that area floundering). Bad, bad management. Like EMI
Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:21
Kid Calamity wrote:
Me and a couple of mates, on a college trip got grabbed by security, at that place and taken downstairs but about four meatheads, tipped off by a plainclothes store detective, suspecting us of shoplifting. Thankfully, none of us had anything we hadn't paid for.


Was it that day you were wearing a stripey top, a balaclava and carrying a sack emblazoned with the word "SWAG" on it?
Spaceship mark
Spaceship mark
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 15, 2013, 13:22
Very true, although there did seem to be a certain naughtiness at work in the way they were buried deep in the shop, requiring a gauntlet of considerable proportions to be run...
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