Thank you for the music, HMV, but we don’t need you any more | Penny Anderson

High-street super chains are a thing of the past. Thankfully, small record shops will continue to serve true music fans

The latest victim of the current high‑street extinction event seems to be HMV (again): 2,200 people might lose their jobs, and in the current precarious employment climate that in itself will be devastating. But the loss of the sole high-street purveyor of pop music has extra significance, even for someone who was not a fan of the store. I have many fond memories of record shops, but not one misty-eyed recollection involves buying the music that changed my life from HMV.

HMV began to sell books and equipment, but event such such obvious diversification didn’t save it

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2rYG8ll