Britain's largest music store is closing down. Unfortunately they had gone into administration due to the booming effect of Internet technology.
We are living in a more digital world, so digital that not every person, shop or store is prepared for. We are blessed with Internet, wireless connection, technology that is able to support the growing demand of digital life.
Throughout my life of 22 years I knew HMV and the other music store was Virgin music. I remembered CD were "the thing". Which was then replaced by MP3 players. I got my first MP3 player in 2003.
At the time 128mb, 256mb were good enough and some even went to 512mb. In equivalent to today, those are nothing. With the big jump to 1gb, 2bg, 8bg and even 128gb in iPods and all that, there seems to be a quick disposal of CD's, CD players and soon MP3 players.
It is a shame that HMV is closing in Piccadilly Circus. I went to Birmingham's Bullring on Wednesday and went to the HMV store there. It was still open and no signs of closing down. Hopefully it can be kept.
I am not a saint or anything but I believe record labels should help encourage genuine music stores when they need help.
Record labels are suing individuals large sums for downloading music as it interferes the money and investments put in when recording the music. They seem to be protecting themselves, the artist, producers by suing.
What about those that actually BUY the music? If only record labels help protect stores like HMV which actually sells the music and CD's. maybe they already do, but not enough to save HMV.
Is there ethics in the music and recording industry? I am bound to start a controversy here but this is just own opinions and thoughts.
It is a big shame that HMV is closing down. Although it does bring back the memories I used to have as a child. When growing up, the trend were "Walkman"'s and Compact Disk players. I remember growing up, I grew up under a reasonably family but money wasn't too much of an issue. I remember I liked listening to music, music was almost "life" at that time. A typical album cost £15.99 and some were £19.99 for two disks of the compilation collections. I always saved money and get my mother to buy me one. Download wasn't too popular (this was 2000 era) and before that I didn't know where to even purchase a CD.
Throughout my life of 22 years I knew HMV and the other music store was Virgin music. I remembered CD were "the thing". Which was then replaced by MP3 players. I got my first MP3 player in 2003.
At the time 128mb, 256mb were good enough and some even went to 512mb. In equivalent to today, those are nothing. With the big jump to 1gb, 2bg, 8bg and even 128gb in iPods and all that, there seems to be a quick disposal of CD's, CD players and soon MP3 players.
It is a shame that HMV is closing in Piccadilly Circus. I went to Birmingham's Bullring on Wednesday and went to the HMV store there. It was still open and no signs of closing down. Hopefully it can be kept.
I am not a saint or anything but I believe record labels should help encourage genuine music stores when they need help.
Record labels are suing individuals large sums for downloading music as it interferes the money and investments put in when recording the music. They seem to be protecting themselves, the artist, producers by suing.
What about those that actually BUY the music? If only record labels help protect stores like HMV which actually sells the music and CD's. maybe they already do, but not enough to save HMV.
Is there ethics in the music and recording industry? I am bound to start a controversy here but this is just own opinions and thoughts.
