HMV online wont last long either if it stays open, it is always over priced compared to other online retailers.

I'm hoping that a couple of the big HMVs will remain open (as happened with Habitat who still have 3 or 4 shops). Maybe the Oxford Street/Trocadero branches? I'd be interested to see if these branches are profitable

apparently the gift cards are useless now so just gonna take what i want and leave the card on the desk. plus people who have gift cards are the customers that actually bought physical but have been let down as a result??

 

hmv you flop

they actually can if they stop online piracy and illegal downloads which killed the music industry in the first place... so yrs the physical format can.be saved but they're not doing anything to save it...

 

No, the problem is people are moving away from physical formats to digital. There will still be a market for CDs for some time to come, but the decline is never going to reverse.

I'm hoping that a couple of the big HMVs will remain open (as happened with Habitat who still have 3 or 4 shops). Maybe the Oxford Street/Trocadero branches? I'd be interested to see if these branches are profitable

 

I reckon That's Entertainment will buy some of the prime locations. Trouble is though all of their back catalogue is pre-owned stuff.

I was just in HMV in Exeter yesterday buying loads of sale items from the blue cross sale, it looked like pretty much all stock was in the sale. I hope they can survive! :(

I think I'm like most people here, will be really sad to see it go but I can't say I bought thigns from there very often. I feel bad for the staff. As someone who works for Peacocks (and did through their administration period) it's really not a fun time. Refusing refunds/returns and gift cards (we've recovered, but STILL can't take gift cards bought pre-administration about a year on) makes the customers so angry and it's not the fault of people at a store level. Most of the staff will have had this land on them overnight and while they're in limbo wondering if they'll still have a job next week, they're getting all of the fury from the customers to make them feel even worse.

 

Hopefully HMV will be saved. I still think, despite all signs suggesting otherwise, there's a place for the physical CD - even if it means a new business opening that JUST sells CDs and maybe DVDs for a reasonable price. I think they perhaps lost their focus and didn't evolve fast enough.

Heads up to those with HMV Pure cards, the Dundee store just processed my £20 store credit without any issues. I just handed over the card like business as usual for the points (acting like they will survive as I don't know what I'd do without HMV) and the member of staff redeemed it for me without me asking.

R.I.P. old good CDs, DVDs e.t.c. :cry: :cry:

I don't want to live in the world without music on physical formats. :angry: :angry:

 

Music piracy won. :snif: :snif:

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I'll continue to buy vinyl so I'll have music on physical format. Tower Record's vinyl section in Dublin has really expanded. I think it will get bigger for those who actually have a fondness for physical format, inlay cards, liner notes, artwork, etc.

 

When you buy an album on vinyl you should get a password to get the album on download too so that it could be mobile - who wants to drag a turntable to the gym with them? :lol:

Edited January 15, 201312 yr by AnthonyT

 

There is an interesting Article about the closure in the Daily Mail.

 

There are already over 1,000 Comments beneath it:,

 

Link:,

 

http://goo.gl/qISnU

R.I.P. old good CDs, DVDs e.t.c. :cry: :cry:

I don't want to live in the world without music on physical formats. :angry: :angry:

 

Music piracy won. :snif: :snif:

RIP sanity. When will your funeral take place? :wacko:

 

I'm soooo bored of this argument (Thank you Big Mistake, your fault). Record labels burnt this into the brain of people.... Not just piracy is guilty but also digital sales and digital stores.

 

BTW you can burn CDs and there you go a physical format :P

 

My physical format is my phone. It's full of music and a lot more than what a CD can store. And I bought the majority of those songs.

 

BTW I buy sometimes CDs, it's nice to look at, nice to have but I only use it once (!), I copy the songs to my computer and will never ever use the CD itself. It is just a nice decoration on my shelf. :lol:

Of course I can understand why some people like a physical album, but please don't exaggerate, it's hilarious.

 

they actually can if they stop online piracy and illegal downloads which killed the music industry in the first place... so yrs the physical format can.be saved but they're not doing anything to save it...

 

OK I promise I stop piracy if you stop talking! So much nonsense... RIP sanity again (although for a long time here)

 

When you buy an album on vinyl you should get a password to get the album on download too so that it could be mobile - who wants to drag a turntable to the gym with them? :lol:

 

What a nice idea! I've never known that, although I don't buy vinyl.

That article is quite funny - 4000 odd jobs at risk, but most people are more concerned about their £10 gift voucher being honoured.

HMV's problem is not converting to the digital age as quickly as some of the others have done

 

I bought about 30 digital albums last year and probably only around 2 new release CDs. It's not that I don't like CDs but I don't actually own a CD player (other than the one in my computer) and that CD is ripped to MP3 as soon as I get the product so it becomes a digital album with a slightly better bit rate than what you get from Amazon/ITunes

 

Physical media is still viable but I feel some sort of click and collect service could be a good idea for a relaunched HMV. Maybe you can buy downloads in the store if you are away from a computer and download them to your Ipod/phone in the shop or download them later on the PC when you get home. They should keep expanding their vinyl though as that's something that will keep people coming back to the stores, finding something that the online stores don't have extensive stocks of is what they need to do

HMV's problem is not converting to the digital age as quickly as some of the others have done

 

I bought about 30 digital albums last year and probably only around 2 new release CDs. It's not that I don't like CDs but I don't actually own a CD player (other than the one in my computer) and that CD is ripped to MP3 as soon as I get the product so it becomes a digital album with a slightly better bit rate than what you get from Amazon/ITunes

 

Physical media is still viable but I feel some sort of click and collect service could be a good idea for a relaunched HMV. Maybe you can buy downloads in the store if you are away from a computer and download them to your Ipod/phone in the shop or download them later on the PC when you get home. They should keep expanding their vinyl though as that's something that will keep people coming back to the stores, finding something that the online stores don't have extensive stocks of is what they need to do

Just came to my mind, that less and less notebooks and computers have a CD player built in. For example the new MacBooks and iMacs don't have it anymore. I don't know the other brands though. That also helps customers not to buy CDs or DVDs, just download music and films from the likes of iTunes, Amazon, Google Play.

What a nice idea! I've never known that, although I don't buy vinyl.

 

You often do :D I got download codes with the Horse Meat Disco compilation and the Dragonette album that I have on vinyl. Of coure, you could always get one of these bad boys...

 

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/img_0867.jpg

 

Anyway I just dropped £50 on HMV to help them out of their crisis. Even though Amazon was chearper for nearly everything I bought.

The Gloucester HMV was still open today.

I was in my local store today and this woman had to be escorted out by the police because she wouldn't move as her £50 gift card wasn't going to be Honoured.

 

Anyway everything looked like it was in the blue cross sale apart from the stuff already in the sale. I hope they can survive.

I really hope HMV survives. I believe HMV Truro is the only record shop left in the whole of Cornwall. Long gone are the days of record shops in Penzance, Newquay, St Austell, Wadebridge, Bodmin, Bude.... all of which I have used in the past.

Album sales will fall, but HMV going won't kill them off, whatever the hysterical usual suspects say. We'll likely just see an increase in trade with Amazon (who doesn't have the Internet or access somehow these days?) or perhaps the take-off of album downloads as a format. Hell, we could even see Spotify subscriptions take off (which would make sense, given I reckon the reason for the fall of album sales is a mix of Spotify, cherry-picking and the recession).