Buy CD's, opening them by the hinges being careful not to damage the seal, copying the CD, then returning the CD for a refund.
I was about 15 and queued up for hours to get tickets for me and my mate to see Nirvana. I think they were about £13.50 each and then £1.50 ticket fee. Between then and the concert Kurt Cobain killed himself. I marched right back to HMV and got my £13.50 back. 🤦
Imagine how awesome it would be to own one of the few, complete, tickets for a Nirvana concert that never happened.
It was no Virgin Megastore.
It was no Our Price either 🙂
It's logo was very memorable. Bright pink on black with the bold typeface.
Never bought anything there.
Buying a really shit record called 'Lolipop' because I needed a 3rd one to get the '3 for £10' deal and there was nothing else that I didn't already have.
I remember when it opened in my hometown by Julian Clary.
If regularly go every Monday to see what the new VHS releases were and then on a Friday for the latest games.
I'm sure I went for a midnight launch of something but I can't remember what. It might have been The X Files on VHS?
Just double checked on a Wiki, they started releasing two episodes a tape, two tapes a month. But the show became so popular, they scrapped that after just a couple of months and decided to do it differently.
This was before major internet, so I would discover things at hmv if never heard of before.
I remember discovering a 4CD soundtrack set to the Star Wars trilogy. A CD for each film with the fourth CD containing rare unreleased music. Bought that instantly I think.
Yeah, lots of other memories too. 😁
Games, posters, and singles in the basement. Albums on the ground floor. DVDs and classical upstairs. It was fun just to look through stuff, but I think I did actually buy all my music and a lot of my game boy games from HMV.
Trying games on the demo machines, finding the Cure's discography at £3 a CD, marking big events with a new CD... ahhh such nice happy times before panic and no money :) damn life was easy :)
