the reason I stopped buying things in HMV

Is price. Oh, and the fact they seemed to stop selling albums and instead offered DVDs for ?12.99.

The death of the single and requirement for bands to release 3 b sides also stopped me having any need to go in there.

Posted By: Charles21 on January 15th 2013 at 09:12:17

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Congratulations to all the student types whose theft of music has contributed to the (NCFC) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jan 15, 08:09:04
- All the same warning signs at Portman Road.......... (NCFC) - usacanary, Jan 15, 15:36:57
- Cock (n/m) (NCFC) - yellowman, Jan 15, 11:48:34
- 'Contributed' being the operative word (NCFC) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jan 15, 11:31:01
  - I imagine this is the same story the directors of HMV will be telling themselves (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 11:50:14
- To be fair, HMV stung the average public enough times. A band's debut would be ?4.99 (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:18:07
  - Yup. Very sad for their staff though, until they are officially unemployed, at which point (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 10:39:47
    - I think the gov will try and keep it all going (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:46:34
      - Good article about the rise and fall of HMV (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 10:51:31
- F**k HMV (NCFC) - sixthgo, Jan 15, 09:57:49
  - haven't HMV been on the brink for ages? (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 10:22:32
    - You are assuming that all generations (NCFC) - sixthgo, Jan 15, 11:06:29
    - or Amazon vouchers. Amazon keep a lot of the independents afloat (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:25:16
- The only ones to blame are HMV. They are not a charity. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 15, 09:31:25
- Harsh, that's only one of a number of reasons they've gone tits up! (n/m) (NCFC) - Kirrie, Jan 15, 09:24:36
- the reason I stopped buying things in HMV (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 15, 09:12:17
- High Street stores could be more competitive if they didn't super heat their shops (NCFC) - Ben, Jan 15, 09:08:17
- thanks pal (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 15, 09:04:40
- Or the bloke who used to run Jessop's, who now happens to be in charge of HMV! (n/m) (NCFC) - bellamys_knee, Jan 15, 09:00:26
- no worries (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 08:42:45
- Nonsense. Business is dog eat dog... nobody buys CD's the quality is shit compared to FLAC (NCFC) - ChengdeCanary, Jan 15, 08:41:01
  - I buy Cds. Haven't a clue what FLAC is and always hated vinyl. (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:24:17
- HMV are still (n/m) (NCFC) - Duck, Jan 15, 08:30:54
  - ...open for business but no longer accepting gift vouchers (NCFC) - Duck, Jan 15, 08:31:36
    - If I had a voucher I would go in and steal up to the value in goods (NCFC) - Ben, Jan 15, 10:23:43
    - Which is theft in it's purest form surely? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:23:04
- Failure to adapt and survive (NCFC) - inutero, Jan 15, 08:27:44
  - They needed to set up a tax-dodging scheme (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:29:13
    - the high street deserves to die imo (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 08:43:46
      - Don't think they had CDs then (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:46:36
- Seriously? Nothing to do with Amazon? (NCFC) - 51eve, Jan 15, 08:18:01
  - you want to blame someone, blame Tescos (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 15, 08:21:21
    - And iTunes and Spotify (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:25:17
      - Spotify is brill, kind of like the old listening booths in record shops. (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:27:08
      - yes, iTunes in particular (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 15, 09:39:14
        
        My 14-year-old daughter wouldn't even *think* of buying a CD (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 09:43:30
        
        When I was 14, a gig would be about ?6 at somewhere like the O2 venues (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:37:34
        
        Well, yes, but I meant she just downloads from iTunes (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 10:52:37
        
        lol (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 10:55:48
      - and steve morison (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 15, 09:35:37
- I'm nearly as wound up as HMV (n/m) (NCFC) - lurd, Jan 15, 08:11:12

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