Does anyone still shop at HMV?

Oh, I finally made my first trip to Sister Ray last week, nearly 5 years after moving to London: rude staff.

same as it ever was

eyerolling/sighing. I'm making a lot of out nothing, essentially. They had a decent CD sale on as well, some nice stuff in there for about £3-4 a go. Vinyl seemed a little pricey.

Have to say I've never had a problem with the staff at Sister Ray, but then they know me well enough since I've been buying stuff there since they opened (their original shop) round about '89/90.

Cosign on Sister Ray, never think about going in there anymore

It's at times like these when I really miss the old Rough Trade shop at Neal's Yard.

YEah, sigh, went down there one time to see if it was still there, a couple years ago...

did Slam City Skates go with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1n_4xkU9E

No Slam is still there last I looked, dunno what's in the basement, more Vans?

is amazon cheaper tho?

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, January 28, 2013 9:42 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Only if you're buying chart or major-label back catalogue ime; the difference for labels like Sublime Frequencies can be crazy. I order online from Honest Jons/Piccadilly/Norman - it's usually quite a bit cheaper than Amazon and I can do my bit to help them stay in business.

In my experience, the ppl in Sister Ray were always p polite and helpful - it was Selectadisc that used to have the arsey staff, so maybe some of them transferred over when SR bought them out/relocated.

Sad to hear that the Covent Garden Rough Trade has gone, bought some amazing discs there in my time and once saw Jad Fair give a great solo performance on the shop floor, too.

Went some time ago - the Brick Lane shop is essentially the Covent Garden branch moved several degrees to the east and expanded a bit. It's a perfectly fine shop but unless you live in the neighbourhood it's awkward to get to.

It *is* awkward to get to. Tube trains are close by normal standards, a fair stroll away by London ones.

http://twitter.com/hmvtweets is liveblogging their firing

ha, tweets getting deleted as soon as they're posted.

And those tweets which had the hashtag hmvxfaxtorfiring have all disappeared

hmv ‏@hmvtweets

Just overheard our Marketing Director (he's staying, folks) ask "How do I shut down Twitter?" #hmvXFactorFiring

Under usual circumstances, we'd never dare do such a thing as this. However, when the company you dearly love is being ruined...

hmv ‏@hmvtweets

...and those hard working individuals, who wanted to make hmv great again, have mostly been fired, there seemed no other choice.

hmv ‏@hmvtweets
Under usual circumstances, we'd never dare do such a thing as this. However, when the company you dearly love is being ruined...

let's just hope that one day, when they think their heart is barren as the desert, a new company can come along and raise up their love like a beacon once more.

hmv logo looking more and more like a dog looking down the end of a bazooka

hmv ‏@hmvtweets
Especially since these accounts were set up by an intern (unpaid, technically illegal) two years ago.

HMV tweets now deleted. Good luck with the money you're never going to get, old men; you've lost any hope of getting any more of mine.

Popjustice tweets sticking up for the management as well. They can go fuck themselves as well (no change there then).

apologies for the tautology but not for anything else.

http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197508_10151440961459273_366020032_n.jpg

twitter is over capacity???

Maybe someone at HMV worked out how to shut it down. Oh good - we can now sue them for breaching the Freedom of Information Act.

"what does this button do?"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BB8hVIuCcAEzOta.gif:large

HMV shut Twitter down?

omg they actually did, lol

If they have done we can take the Beats headphones off their backs.

Right, so they have managed to get 'making 60 employees jobless" into something that might actually impress the BBC News page...

Is Back.

not for me

does twitter go down often?

Thought I'd test it:

Hmm, HMV manages to shut Twitter down! #HmvShutsTwitter

Hmm, my tweet is still in the 'spinning around' mode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21276913
http://news.sky.com/story/1045744/hmv-staff-use-twitter-to-reveal-redundancies

http://www.itn.co.uk/UK/67509/fired-hmv-staff-take-to-companys-twitter

(blimey, in't ITN News website orribl)

And from Music Week, revealing 190 job losses.

http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/hmv-cfo-ian-kenyon-among-60-new-job-cuts-report/053400

I love the way tabloids and say ITV, use the phrase: "took to Twitter".

Like as if you are sitting in your drawing room drinking a port and you read something in the papers and roar at your manservant to fetch your iPhone at once.

http://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/hmv/stores/vms/fopp

Meanwhile, in 'website not shut' um, thing.

http://www.emoderation.com/hmv-rogue-tweeterrevealed

66 stores to close:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366009

Yep, Bracknell to go.

Thought so.

Glasgow - Fort, Glasgow - Silverburn, Glasgow Braehead

That only leaves the city centre. I'm surprised at the Braehead one closing as it always looks busy.

Only the outlying London HMVs to go. Fulham Broadway no surprise as that branch has been going downhill practically since it opened. So Oxford Circus, Piccadilly and Selfridge's branches to stay?

Trocadero's gone. Looks like city stores have done badly out of this generally - getting rid of high rents?