Daniel
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 13:50
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Great piece about HMV
http://croydonmunicipal.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/how-hmv-can-save-itself.html?m=0
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Squid Tempest
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Re: admin-i-stration!
Jan 16, 2013, 14:13
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Kid Calamity wrote: your so pedantic.
*SLAP*
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Sin Agog
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 15:09
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Blockbusters Fails To Make It To The Other Side of The Hexagon
As a pesky quasi-Commie (not down with this Stasi business, though) who finds it hard to mourn dying chain stores, I can't deny I think both of these behemoths falling helps encourage more personalised tastes, rather than pick-and-choosing from a certain type of item placed in front of you. A shelf devoted to New Adam Sandler Comedy and one scratched copy of Seven Samurai tucked away out of sight behind the counter.
Fuck it, hanging around high streets for fun never struck me as all that savoury a pastime. Always catch the pungent whiff of people in desperate need of a fix whenever I cross paths with town centres. I'm not sure if people are actually buying less or just satisfying their lust in their own homes, but anything that dials down the feeling that I MUST BE SOLD SOMETHING just because I'm out for a walk is a step in the right direction s'far as I'm concerned.
(Not preaching here, just describing my own visceral reactions).
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Lawrence
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 15:25
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It would also be down to used and indie shops to find something special, if they're lucky enough to keep afloat.
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Moon Cat
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Re: HMV - an alternative view
Jan 16, 2013, 16:52
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riverman wrote:
A colleague of mine who lives out near Staines lamented the fact he'd no longer be able to pop to Staines HMV to pick up a DVD - there's nowhere for him to go to buy a film in the spur of the moment. Which reminded me of a newspaper article I read recently about the cost of British trains - you can no longer romantically go to a station and hop on a train somewhere, you have to book over a month in advance to be affordable! I'm probably digressing but all a sad indictment of the times...
I agree re: the trains. I worry that if some emergency happened to friend or family I wouldn't be able to just get on a train and get to 'em because of the cost.
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Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 17:05
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Nice response Fitter and interesting to read.
My only concern with the notion of things being reduced to a coterie of music-centric specialist shops, as attractive a notion as that may seem at first glance, is that it runs the risk of music and the buying of it being sidelined into a collectors market with all the costs and possible elistism that might result. At the moment I think we on this forum are, as music fans, in a fairly nicely balanced position of there being a mainstream market and yet having the wonderful further reaches of the weird and wonderful available too. I think would be a shame if the more casual music buyer would find themselves effectively shunted out of the arena and music was just a specialist and collectors game. It should be for all I reckon; from the obsessive for whom catalogue numbers offer a way to enlightenment to the person that buys one Adele album a year.
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Fitter Stoke
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 17:23
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I take your point, but I think that any record shop would be taking a very risky move if it chose to ignore mainstream tastes, particularly in the absence of HMV. Cool elitism just doesn't cut it these days in the record retailing business. Whither wonderful dealers like Freak Emporium or Ultima Thule, to name just two, now? They could boast never having sold a Phil Collins album. Then they shut...for good.
Thanks for the feedback, by the way!
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Moon Cat
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 16, 2013, 17:28
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Fitter Stoke wrote: I take your point, but I think that any record shop would be taking a very risky move if it chose to ignore mainstream tastes, particularly in the absence of HMV. Cool elitism just doesn't cut it these days in the record retailing business. Whither wonderful dealers like Freak Emporium or Ultima Thule, to name just two, now? They could boast never having sold a Phil Collins album. Then they shut...for good.
Thanks for the feedback, by the way!
Well, yeah, we're on the same page there really. My hope is that whatever arises, if anything, from the ashes, all will be catered for as best as can be done.
ps I do feel sorry for whomever had the job of sticking all those 'blue cross' stickers on EVERYthing in HMV recently. Sheesh!
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Spaceship mark
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Re: HMV about to enter adminastration!
Jan 17, 2013, 08:05
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Moon Cat wrote: ps I do feel sorry for whomever had the job of sticking all those 'blue cross' stickers on EVERYthing in HMV recently. Sheesh!
When I worked there this was the worst bit (see earlier post). You could 'oversticker' if the price was going down, but had to remove the old sticker if something was going up. Prices and offers used to change so often you were forever sticking and peeling, peeling and sticking, sticking and peeling... Then there were the 3for2s etc....
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anthonyqkiernan
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Edited Jan 17, 2013, 10:43
One Up, Aberdeen
Jan 17, 2013, 10:43
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Hot on the heels comes the sadder news that Aberdeen's independent store is to close. Which has ben a fixture and a hub for the local scene for over 30 years.
This is very interesting:
Christmas wasn’t as good as we had hoped; there wasn’t an awful lot of product for us. It was difficult to get supplies whereas big suppliers were getting CDs thrown at them on a sale or return basis. If we had more support from record companies we may have survived.
Something to remember when the talk of labels bailing out HMV further arises again
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