Does anyone still shop at HMV?

HMV staff are nearly always of the nu-metal fan type..tattoos and piercings etc. Nothing wrong with that but just seems odd to me. I only use the Southport branch now for browsing. Their prices make me laugh and every monday you will see me walking up and down the aisles giggling and smiling to myself.

Picked up the most recent Malkmus, Beach Boys and Gruff Rhys albums for £3 each between the two remaining Glasgow shops today. The Blur thing seems to be a regional pricing screw-up, sadly

Incidentally, all 3 of these albums were on my 'wait til they go down to £3 in Fopp' mental list. Seems to be working out rather well

Well, Billy Dodds, depends on which HMV he tried...

Well, I got the "Parklife" one, £10, just to complete the set..

fuck blur reissues.
today i picked up a ton of kiss cds for £3 each (all of the original band releases basically)
under normal circumstances i would feel ilm-duty bound to report that they are all crap.
but the fact is that they are not.
they are chocka with glam'd up low grade fun that really hits the spot at the moment, and makes me realise just where urge overkill got a lot of their sound from.

oh yeah, I saw those too.

Also, the Beach boys latest...

classic era kiss vs revival beach boys : hmmmmm .. lemme think !

well, quite.

how boring

got the Peter Hook Joy division and Neil Young autobio for something like half price, actually less since the listed one is in £s & I paid €s.

Was also looking at the new Barney Hoskyns Led zep and Pete Townshend autobio.

bought the 1st Kiss & Alive about a month and a bit ago. & they do have some pretty toe-tapping stuff on them.

In Oxford Circus HMV yesterday, buying stuff; picking up (amongst other things) the new Martha Wainright (on CD) when this old bloke slopes up next to me and picks up the vinyl copy. "Ooh, nothing loike voinyl, is there-a!" he hissed. "WHAT IS THIS THE FUCKING JIMMY SAVILE FAN CLUB?" I yelled and got him chucked out.

I mean, record shops, if you want to stay open and attract people, keep the Jimmy Savile types out, otherwise we'll all just stick to Amazon.

sp. Martha WAINWRIGHT, sigh ilx introduce edit post function.

Hadn't realised until today's trip into town that the other place that was selling the books I got from HMV was selling paperbacks for pretty much the same price, I think Hook was even maybe €5 more. & that was part of a current offer, 3 for the price of 2, cheapest free but also most of the books around €15 each. Pricetagged on the back about €21.50.
HMV had them all in hardback at about that, Hook €10, Zep €13

I got the Hook one for £20, it was a slipcase edition with interview cd included. On opening, I found it was also signed and numbered, so hey.

well the Neil Young came with postcards anyway, so that's lovely

Didn't look at the books, but got the following from Dundee: Flaming Lips + Heady Fwends, Amanda Mair (s/t), Sweet Billy Pilgrim 'Crown and Treaty', Orbital 'Wonky' and Luke Haines' 'Outsider/In: the Collection' for £3 each and the Human League 'Dare/Fascination!' 2CD for a fiver.

The only Blur stuff in the small sale section was the original 1CD versions. Quite a few of the recent Mute realises for £3 - Apparat and Cold Specks (already have and love both), SCUM, Bethe Jeans Houghton, etc.

In Oxford Circus HMV yesterday, buying stuff; picking up (amongst other things) the new Martha Wainright (on CD) when this old bloke slopes up next to me and picks up the vinyl copy. "Ooh, nothing loike voinyl, is there-a!" he hissed. "WHAT IS THIS THE FUCKING JIMMY SAVILE FAN CLUB?" I yelled and got him chucked out.

I mean, record shops, if you want to stay open and attract people, keep the Jimmy Savile types out, otherwise we'll all just stick to Amazon.

wtf?!?

No cheap Blur 2 CD sets in the Edinburgh (Princes St) HMV today but there were a couple in the Fopp on Rose St for a fiver.

That's dull but thanks for the warning treefell. That would've been a wasted trip into town today.

i dont understand what marcello was getting at either

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/04/whyrecordsshouldfacethevi

Yes, but unfortunately vinyl outlasted Steven Wells...

only for sad cases and jimmy savile fans/lookalikes/behavealikes.

i am just absolutely sick to the back teeth of record shops being ruined by these stupid pervy old men. obviously the state pension is still too high.

Albums, hmm..

I mean, the racks of "180ton" pressings in HMV right now, hey kids, you like the Arctic Monkeys? Buy the nice LP for £20...

No.

like i said in whatever other thread i said it in, no bias against vinyl per se, just against ageing pervy vinyl fetishists who would doubtless hand over £150 (where do they get it from? *CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT*) for a nineteen-cylinder box set of Ron Wood's I've Got My Own Album To Do complete with replica life-size guitar and a phial of Wood's purplish sputum.

There are box sets that have lots of music.

And there are others that (also) have souvenir scarves.

Yeah, coasters I can understand, people use coasters when they are at that 'box set' stage in life.. And they aren't too huge.. Theres some in that "Oh By Rhe Way" Pink Floyd set, and it's still a compact size, hray. but that 'immersion' box for Dark Side.. are you going to dance around the room with the scarf around yr wrist? Oh, sorry, OK, if you want to..

Stil, I don't actually use those coasters (all the CDs after "Obscured" ho ho)

also an actual live tarantula to represent herbie hancock's moog spider jiving, plus your dinner will be cooked specially by stalwart andy newmark and willie weeks.

"This guy George Foreman, years ago, he was a bass player, invented the Foreman grill, absolutely no distortion, totally clean, totally pure sound."

I've never seen these old men in record shops that marcello speaks of. Oldest people I see are usually marcello's age and either buying neil young (cd) box sets or a girls aloud or sugababes cd

Are you suggesting Marcello was talking to his reflection?

absolutely not! he was vile (as in Sa-VILE).

in hamilton all i ever see is old folk buying tommy scott and francie and josie cds out of the charity shop.

The usual old people sneering at the old

frighteningly i now look like jeff bezos of amazon.

im not even sure hamilton charity shops sell cds or lps anymore. Outside of the supermarkets its pretty much a music free town now.

even cash converters dont sell cds here "no demand we only sell dvds"

Das Scheisshause ohne Musik

i was there recently and most of the hamilton charity shops still do cds. not very good ones, admittedly, but they do still sell them.

frighteningly i now look like jeff bezos of amazon.

He looks younger than Ken Stott, so hey...

HMV staff are nearly always of the nu-metal fan type..tattoos and piercings etc. Nothing wrong with that but just seems odd to me.

umm ..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/shortcuts/2012/oct/24/hmv-banning-tattoos-staff-wont-increase-sales

went into the oxford st one on monday on my lunchbreak...wow, what a dreadful set of sale CDs that was!

Also bought the Peter Hook bio from HMV I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it is so poorly written, but parts of it read like a big text message.

Huge laughs at "Wood's purplish sputum" and "actual live tarantula"!!

According to a tweet from Laura Thingy - the BBC's business correspodent - HMV are starting a massive discounting campaign tomorrow, not as a continuation of their January sale, but in an effort to gain cash to pay off their creditors. I'm sure someone more tech-savvy will be able to find a link. Is this the end of HMV then?

I wondered: There were a lot of items in Bracknell's HMV with white stickers on that had a blue cross on. No details as to why. I'd have asked if I'd cared that much about what was marked...

Blue Cross sale starts Saturday - 25% off marked prices.

Bracknell never has owt, apart from that one time they knocked out the Blur boxes for a fiver each..

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/hmv-to-host-blue-cross-sale/029972

hmm, might need to spend my £20 hmv voucher soon.