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hmm : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/17/hmvgroupbusiness
even more annoying is the fact in the central Bristol HMV, the Electronic/Dance section has been amalgamated into the rock-n-pop section making it murder to find anything new and interesting. Oh, and of course there is even more floorspace dedicated to bloody DVDs even though the upstairs is all DVD now.
― mark e, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Looked in at the Glasgow HMV branches when I was up there over Christmas and as usual I was reminded how shockingly bad HMV shops are in general when compared to the Oxford Circus one. It's as if they decided to have one Tesco's supermarket and then the rest are just TescoExpress branches; if you don't want something in the Top 40 or anything else that isn't the bleeding obvious, you've had it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
HMV Glasgow is still a lot better than Virgin/Zavvi's shops. That big Zavvi in Buchanan st is a huge shop with lots of space and whatever stock there is, is crap. That shop could be crammed with loads of great cds and vinyl from all genres and be the best damn record shop in the country.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I used their website a few times, mainly for presents rather than myself, until they were a bit useless and I got angry (rant somewhere on another thread).
Bought someone a Christmas present in the Oxford branch when I realised at v short notice that he'd probably really like and not already know about the Tuss mini-album thing (and also the Vitalic live thing, but they didn't have that).
Then I got a voucher for Christmas and they didn't have most of what I was looking for but I was pleased to find Pissed Jeans and Harmonia Live 1974.
So, not much, but I'll be annoyed if it goes as we now have no independent music shops and I would rather give money to HMV than to, ahem, "Zavvi".
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Current sale is crap
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Worryingly so
No sale at all in the Bristol branch other than the usual "2 for a tenner" deals, but thats not a sale is it. oh hang on, Airs debut is for £4 .. guess that qualifies as a sale. Just. Its actually very depressing how the Bristol record shop situation has been totally decimated in recent times, making the current state of HMV a very important factor for us lunch hour shoppers.
― mark e, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
And of course, whether HMV or Virgin (I refuse to use that stinking other meaningless name), one still gets asked "Did you find everything you were looking for?"
"No - you didn't have the El Grincho album."
"Uuuuuuuhhhhhh?????"
This is why we have to say "yes" every time.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
In Oxford HMV about a week into Jan there was no CD sale, just a single stand of "sale" DVDs (mostly sitcoms, not particularly cheap).
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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No Replay, no Imperial. When I lived in Bristol between 1996 and 2000, and even for a few years afterwards, both those shops were excellent, then they closed very quickly.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
then followed by the ok-ish Disc-n-Tape, and of course the various Fopp outlets.
only Rooted left for the dubstep crew, but little else now.
― mark e, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
HMV or Virgin sales are the same sales as 10 years ago but with added £2 off recent albums. The only difference between then and now perhaps is lots of dvds in the sale. Stock a better range of cds and vinyls and perhaps sales wont go down. Most of the time i dont even bother browsing hmv/zavvi because I know they wont stock what I have and the sales are predictable.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
HMV or Virgin sales are the same sales as 10 years ago
Absolutely not true, not even the same as two years ago
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes it's possible I might still get a Henry Flynt CD (to name but one of hundreds) in a sale in Zavvi... but unlikely on current evidence
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean its the same old Dylan/RHCP cds in the sales now that were in it 10 years ago.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link