News of the HMV sale
Posted by: Chunny Nochubb on 27 September 2002
Was in Oxford Street last night and saw that HMV had just started their “Biggest sale ever”.
I am itinerant music buyer, and didn’t really have my buying boots on last night but strolled in for a quick look.
It seems that they had quite a number of recent CDs going for between £5 to £9. Didn’t stay too long downstairs in the mainstream rock/pop area, as it was too noisy, so can’t give any details on bargains there but in the Country/Folk section which is where I buy over half my music from these days, they had “Blue Horse” by The Be Good Tanya’s for £8.99, which was £5 less than I paid for it, and they have been quite big over here this year and touted by various BBC radio presenters such as Andy Kershaw, Bob Harris, Nick Baraclough etc.,
Only stayed about 10 mins. in all, as I had not been allowed a late pass and ended up buying a full price CD, but there you go.
I did pick up their magazine HMV Choice, which is their guide to “Specialist music”, that is anything that is not on the rock/pop floor. It is divided into sections – Classical – Jazz- Country – Easy – Roots-Soundtracks and reviews a lot of new releases and as it is free represents remarkable VFM. The downside was that there were no reviews of any of David Hasselhoff’s works anywhere.
Vinyl fans – Sorry didn’t see any, and can’t find any reference to it on their web site.
CNC
I am itinerant music buyer, and didn’t really have my buying boots on last night but strolled in for a quick look.
It seems that they had quite a number of recent CDs going for between £5 to £9. Didn’t stay too long downstairs in the mainstream rock/pop area, as it was too noisy, so can’t give any details on bargains there but in the Country/Folk section which is where I buy over half my music from these days, they had “Blue Horse” by The Be Good Tanya’s for £8.99, which was £5 less than I paid for it, and they have been quite big over here this year and touted by various BBC radio presenters such as Andy Kershaw, Bob Harris, Nick Baraclough etc.,
Only stayed about 10 mins. in all, as I had not been allowed a late pass and ended up buying a full price CD, but there you go.
I did pick up their magazine HMV Choice, which is their guide to “Specialist music”, that is anything that is not on the rock/pop floor. It is divided into sections – Classical – Jazz- Country – Easy – Roots-Soundtracks and reviews a lot of new releases and as it is free represents remarkable VFM. The downside was that there were no reviews of any of David Hasselhoff’s works anywhere.
Vinyl fans – Sorry didn’t see any, and can’t find any reference to it on their web site.
CNC
I totally agree with Paul on this - the HMV on-line store is excellent and there's usually bargains to be had somewhere. It is a tad slow though so broadband helps!
In the UK Amazon and MVC are both good too and have sale offers on most of the time, but CDNow in the US has by far the best and most informative site of the lot.
A couple of years ago, it was lots cheaper to buy from CDNow even with the carriage costs, but sadly that no longer holds true. The savings are now modest, probably because UK prices are reduced by the likes of HMV - long may it continue
David
In the UK Amazon and MVC are both good too and have sale offers on most of the time, but CDNow in the US has by far the best and most informative site of the lot.
A couple of years ago, it was lots cheaper to buy from CDNow even with the carriage costs, but sadly that no longer holds true. The savings are now modest, probably because UK prices are reduced by the likes of HMV - long may it continue
David