Are entertainment stores like HMV redundant?

[Lysander]

i personally haven't purchased a cd or dvd or even a game in the shop's for 5 years or so.

as someone has already said "the postman is my santa"

I must be one of a dying breed then. Only a couple of days ago I bought 7 DVDs and two CDs, which is totally normal. And I plan to buy more in the next few days. I just love amassing physical media.

 

[Deleted member 54091]

I stopped buying cd's when i found out about downloading.

 

[Cosimo]

I must be one of a dying breed then. Only a couple of days ago I bought 7 DVDs and two CDs, which is totally normal. And I plan to buy more in the next few days. I just love amassing physical media.

You’re not the only one to buy CDs, lots of people do. I prefer to have a physical copy and I do have a very good Hi-Fi to play them on. It’s going to be a long time before CDs are dead.

 

[haveaniceday]

HMV to close sixty stores.

Is this the Vinyl Countdown?

 

[Lysander]

You’re not the only one to buy CDs, lots of people do. I prefer to have a physical copy and I do have a very good Hi-Fi to play them on. It’s going to be a long time before CDs are dead.

Indeed, good to know. Nice to know there are others around.

 

[Westyfield2]

Are entertainment stores like HMV redundant? Hopefully!

I was thinking about this when it was on the news yesterday.

As far as I see it:

If I want a song for the sake of it being a song I'll just buy it on iTunes/equivalent.​

If I want a CD because I'm anal and like to keep them, or because I want to rip it to get a proper lossless version on my HTPC I'll buy the CD online as it'll be cheaper in a HMW retail store. As I've already listened to the song and am after the CD to keep I don't mind waiting a few days for the CD arrive from online, and I've probably spent in total half as much as I would have buying it from HMV.​

Also everytime I've been into a HMV store that I can remember it has been an unpleasant experience. Either ridiculously busy, full of chavs, incompetent staff, not having what I went in their for, different price to their own website. Not to mention that there's no way the store has been cleaned in this century.

 

[Deep]

A lot of these stores are going to fail, but I wonder what will replace them.

I did recently buy 2 albums on offer from HMV, it was the 2 for £8 deal it was a fair price tbh.

Don't think I have purchased a dvd from there for a long long time though!

I made a thread a week or so ago about there being 2 HMV shops in Lakeside shopping centre, perhaps the new one is just seasonal

 

[Aleksandrs]

Same company!

How odd. Was that always the case? When I worked for Gamestation years ago, we would always sneak into Game to price check then beat on price.

 

[Aleksandrs]

The two brands are owned by the same company and target different markets. Price sensitive hardcore gamers go to Gamestation, families go to Game.

Ah I see! Well don't know about other towns, but Game just never had anyone in it, everyone was in Gamestation.

The poor bloke who was the manager in Game now owns his own trade in game shop down our little market center that hardly anyone goes in. Do feel sorry for him.

 

[Dewotter]

HMV were always more expensive than any other retailer for the same product. It doesn't surprise me they're struggling.

 

[Jambo]

I don't think illegal downloading has anything to do with the downfall of stores like HMV. But that's opening a very large can of worms.

Read this and then tell me if you still believe that.

http://www.deepelm.com/piracy/

 

[Lakeland]

Can't be bothered to read four pages.

Basically if they were redundant they would not be operating, so you already had your answer.

I've bought something from there recently but that was only because I left a christmas present too late to be delivered from online.

I am so used to playing MP3s off a device or from a data CD that it really annoys me having to change CDs

 

[SeraphX]

Yes. 100% in my opinion.

This,

i remember having virgins and our price in town in days gone past and well, the HMV we have now is trash, i dont use it because it never stocks what i like.

Online stores do have the edge, so yeah, they are reduntant, and they should sit up and say yes we are and find something else to do.

 

[haveaniceday]

our price now hmv who next

 

[Vonhelmet]

HMV to close sixty stores.

Is this the Vinyl Countdown?

You're a hero of the modern age.

 

[Glaucus]

It's a dying buisness. Even a lamen now pays and downloads mp3s, it wobt be that many more years till video and gaming is the same. Ps4 xbox3 i would be very surprsed if they arent based aroubd a download system. It wont be long till it's only one store per shopping centre, but the future is downloads, with a few independts to service the "vinyl" like purists.

Hopefully not, I like flicking through CDs and finding something I might like/have heard before

a cd cover tells you nothing about the music. Suggestions on itunes/zune us where it's at.

 

[Matteysan]

I use HMV to trade in my games I really hope they don't go because they always offer the most money/trade in compared to other shops around here

 

[Reality|Bites]

Once our Parents generation dies out it will be the end, not yet lol.

 

[Rameses]

I read this before on DigitalSpy:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a296380/hurts-respond-to-hmv-store-closures.html

A quote by some dude from some band, but hit the nail on the head!

He wrote: "HMV's decline is the start of a world where we all sit in dirty tracksuit bottoms, wiping biscuit crumbs from our mouths & conducting our whole lives on the ******* internet. The machines are winning.

Pretty much agree the internet is winning, besides perishables and a few assortment shops and key big chains I can see the rest falling by the wayside this yeah especially and beyond.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

He wrote: "HMV's decline is the start of a world where we all sit in dirty tracksuit bottoms, wiping biscuit crumbs from our mouths & conducting our whole lives on the ******* internet. The machines are winning.

What a load of nonsence. Internet shopping saves time, which can be spend conducting your life.

Going to the shops to buy something doesn't constitute "having a life" no matter what women try and tell us. Shopping is a chore which the internet has made easy.