Can anyone explain the Harry Potter image in the article?
Hope they start doing artist performances and signings again.
I’m getting nostalgic here in Australia. All of our HMVs closed down years ago.
Great to see, but I popped by head in the door the other day and they’ve still got those bloody funkos everywhere. Get rid of that shite.
Honestly their turn around was amazing. Completely reinvented their dying stores and image, and have rebuilt with great success. It’s very rare you see big business make sweeping, positive changes to a company.
Good luck to it, the last HMV I went into (now gone – Bristol Cribbs) seemed to be very heavy on expensive vinyl. If this dips, they could be back in trouble. Merch and books and the like is OK but people can get that anywhere.
It’s only been 4 years? The way people have been going on about it, you’d think it had been 40.
I went into a “the hmv store” today and it felt like a knock off version of the old HMV.
The HMV where I live is full of very expensive records. The cheapest LP is about £20 and they go up to £50 or more. I no longer shop there.The CD selection is grim…. racks of really obvious mainstream crud. Nothing interesting. You can get the exact same CDs in nearby charity shops for 50p.
Back in the 80s and 90s I loved the Oxford Street HMV and Virgin Megastore. You could get stuff there that was unavailable anywhere else. Crazy choice.
Ridiculous that you can run away from a load of debt and then use the same name again….
It’s probably too much of a niche idea, but I think shops like HMV should dabble in new reprints of classic retro CDs, DVDs, and especially video games.
For example, really rare copies of PS2 game Haunting Ground goes for £135-£199. Genuine Pokémon Red and Blue copies are going stupidly high. Original Mario Bros sealed cartridge are being auctioned off between £50k and half a million, insane…
It will also give a middle finger to the scalpers.
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Can anyone explain the Harry Potter image in the article?
Hope they start doing artist performances and signings again.
I’m getting nostalgic here in Australia. All of our HMVs closed down years ago.
Great to see, but I popped by head in the door the other day and they’ve still got those bloody funkos everywhere. Get rid of that shite.
Honestly their turn around was amazing. Completely reinvented their dying stores and image, and have rebuilt with great success. It’s very rare you see big business make sweeping, positive changes to a company.
Good luck to it, the last HMV I went into (now gone – Bristol Cribbs) seemed to be very heavy on expensive vinyl. If this dips, they could be back in trouble. Merch and books and the like is OK but people can get that anywhere.
It’s only been 4 years? The way people have been going on about it, you’d think it had been 40.
I went into a “the hmv store” today and it felt like a knock off version of the old HMV.
The HMV where I live is full of very expensive records. The cheapest LP is about £20 and they go up to £50 or more. I no longer shop there.The CD selection is grim…. racks of really obvious mainstream crud. Nothing interesting. You can get the exact same CDs in nearby charity shops for 50p.
Back in the 80s and 90s I loved the Oxford Street HMV and Virgin Megastore. You could get stuff there that was unavailable anywhere else. Crazy choice.
Ridiculous that you can run away from a load of debt and then use the same name again….
It’s probably too much of a niche idea, but I think shops like HMV should dabble in new reprints of classic retro CDs, DVDs, and especially video games.
For example, really rare copies of PS2 game Haunting Ground goes for £135-£199. Genuine Pokémon Red and Blue copies are going stupidly high. Original Mario Bros sealed cartridge are being auctioned off between £50k and half a million, insane…
It will also give a middle finger to the scalpers.