'I spent half my youth in there. It's a great place.'
Musician
Dave Leese, aged 25, of Hanley, a guitarist with rock band Sworn To Oath, said: "If it does go it's a terrible thing for the economy and the industry as a whole.
"Everyone is guilty of not buying as many CDs these days – or even paying for music in general – as everything is available digitally from the comfort of your own home."
Former DJ Lorraine Bird, aged 41 of Clayton, said: "I remember the first record I bought was Turning Japanese by The Vapours but I also purchased Cool In The Kaftan by BA Robertson.
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"One reason for HMV heading into administration is to do with the inability to compete with online stores such as Amazon and Play but I'm sure there'll be a lot more to it than that.
Musician Mike Sheldon, aged 26, of Werrington, who plays bass for indie band Ruby Dukes, said: "I've bought every album I've ever had from that shop. The first was Definitely Maybe by Oasis. I think HMV took far too much on with DVDs and accessories. I've always seen it as a shop for music and that's how it should have stayed."
Terry Bossons, aged 40, of Porthill, who is a presenter on 6 Towns Radio, said: "I have been a DJ since the late 80s and the weekly drive to HMV to check out the new releases was something I did up until the mid 2000s.
"There are so many great memories. Thankfully we still have shops like Music Mania and Rubber Soul Record for people like me who like physical copies of their favourite albums."
Shop owner Rob Barrs, aged 37, of Stoke, who runs Rubber Soul Records in the town, said: "I spent half of my youth in HMV looking for vinyl. It was great. It was a great shop and I have been really sad to hear what is happening.
"I think they have had to evolve as it's a shame now people don't go out and buy music. "I have been in business for 10 years, starting up at the market before opening a shop. I'm now looking to expand. I can offer things like early presses of albums."
Comments
by Backdoored
Wednesday, January 16 2013, 11:09PM
“The High St as we know it -with pubs to 'add atmosphere'... is dead. Or soon will be. Both Shoips and the latter are closing at an alarming rate.
It's days are numbered -The ONLINE REVOLUTION will see to that -making it inevitable... 'the customer is always right'....?”
by Nonteacher
Wednesday, January 16 2013, 12:09PM
“It's certainly a shame that any business has failed and lost the jobs and lively hoods of the staff that have supported it. No one deserves to suffer that fate.
BUT...... maybe there's more to think of ??
The concept of musicians earning a living from selling plastic copies of their work instead of actually playing could be seen as a "blip" in the timeline. The 'musician' must rank amongst the oldest professions in the world alongside the obvious and during all that time all participants earned their crust from playing their instruments and entertaining the people who paid them to do so. At no point until say the late sixties did many musicians get rich on the proceeds of selling bits of plastic (it took a few decades of musicians being ripped off by management and record companies first). So as the age of the "record" comes to an end should we as musicians, be complaining about doing what musicians have always done for a living or do we whinge and moan about not being able to sell our plastic? In a couple of hundred years it will appear bizarre that there was a short period of time when we could get away with flogging bits of plastic instead of working. In the context of a few thousand years of musical history the sales of plastic copies surely isn't significant, it's the music itself and what we played that is. We need to get real, grow up and get back on stage, musical recording is now file based and is thus uncontrollable. It's just technology moving on again.
For the record (no pun intended!) I've played gigs in this town since I was 16, I'm 52 now and still at it and have also wasted most of my life harbouring fantasies about selling large amounts of plastic and getting rich on the back of it. It's just not realistic nowadays. Record it, do your best, give it away and hope that anyone who you manage impress with it will turn up and pay to get in and see you do your real work. Not much help I'm afraid for the fakers who make records without being able to play anything but I haven't got an ounce of sympathy for them, they've been hurting my ears for years. RIP dodgy boy bands and electro pop etc.
Mind you, I'm not too sure just how, in the current climate, we're going to get the public to start coughin' up the cash and go out in the evening! Sounds like Tory Britain, but that's another complaint…………..”