MVC music shop group have just gone into administration. They will continue trading over Xmas, but unless a buyer is found to rescue the business, it will probably close down in January.
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who cares? its shit.
indeed
meh it was always crap, you could never find any decent rock titles!
Andys records closure was a bigger loss over in east anglia
MVC
is dirt cheap. Last time I was in there, they had Jimmy Eat World - Futures for £2.99, same price for the latest Million Dead CD and tons of similar bargains.
Eurgh finally,
the MVCs in Brighton are shit. The employees are like zombies and the shops are always dirty and badly arranged.
Where is MVC in Brighton?
There's one in
George Street and there's one in the little alley that connects Churchill Square to Queens Street.
and what was that
'mvc club' all about? it just made people who couldn't be bothered to fill in a form at the checkout in a big shop pay a quid more.
die, mvc, die.
yeah!
once i found and mvc club card on the floor. i would use it if my eyes didnt burn at the sight of a thousand katie melua albums when i go in there.
yeah but looking at the album
is fine, cos shes like hott n stuff, its just listening to it thats wrong.
Good news!
I noticed the Cardiff branch had closed. My heart did summersaults of joy.
The MVC Club was the biggest swizz ever. Filling out a form and getting a bloody card, just to pay the same price as everywhere else.
Good riddance toMVC, I will dance on it's grave.
especially
as the cardiff branch is directly opposite Spillers which is fine record shop. I love the quirky way they have photocopied sleeves in plastic 7" size jackets instead of actual cds.
I wish I worked there. But I live in another country.
spillers
is one of my favourite places in the world. they have an online shop now too :D apparently, if the record you want isn't up on the site, just give them a bell. they like to talk :)
durhams was good
newcastles was a bit shit
but they did have good deals every now and again
no surprise
It was the music equivalent of Carpet Right...or something.
If Silver Screen is next on the list I'll be happy - Santa can take things away rather than give this year
Ummm.
The Silverscreen near me has some fit employees (ex film students with no prospects but anyway...). No, don't.
oh no
claire roberts (of colin roberts' sister fame) will be unemployed soon then. nightmare.
is she
the blacksheep of the family? mvc? so mainstream!
random fact
40 of the mvc shops have been brought by music zone
gah
shit record stores are TAKING OVER.
music zone is infinitely worse than mvc.
out of the chains
fopp clearly wins.
league table:
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fopp
music zone
mvc
hmv
virgin
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correct?
no that's very very wrong
apart from the fopp thing.
fopp
hmv
mvc
music zone
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virgin
Surely the table reads...
Small independant store
Second hand record store
The internet
Don't give a fuck about the rest.
Well I've never really...
experianced Fopp so I can't comment about it.
Wishpig
has the order right.
as a virgin employee...
I can only agree... still got some time off for christmas, what more do I want?...
i tried to do that
but the whitespace above virgin got deleted. SO SHIT, VIRGIN.
i hate hmv. their shops are massive and yet they never have what i want. and whatever albums they do have are about £18.99. at least music zone (or 'the zone' as i enjoy calling it) have a couple of cheapo books.
hmv isn't THAT bad
it was good when they had the 2 for a tenner offer on. and they usually have an alright "dance" section too. and i've found really cool label compilations there and they have more selection of 7" than anywhere else apart from fopp.
fopp is ace - especially for vinyl and dvds.
virgin is utter COCJ though. fucking richard branson.
COCJ
means really really really rubbish.
COCJ
=
Boone
exactly.
virgin is UTTER BOONE.
What?
Down by law?
Fopp wins
actual fact
today I visited camden's new Fopp, and bought "isn't anything" and "daydream nation" for a fiver each. guilt at not buying christmas presents for others lifted by not having a conscience.
friends schmends
Fopp!
I got Speaking In Tounges for a 5er yesterday. Was tempted to have a felch on Sonic Youth stuff as well. And Husker Du.
The list goes like this;
Local independant record stor.
Fopp.
....
who cares after that.
2nd hand record shops get their own little sub column.
Fopp sounds good...
I'll have to try one one day.
yes
but we were doing the mainstream record store list. the ACTUAL list goes like this.
1. local independent record store
1. second hand record store
the end.
I'd add
3. Used & New on Amazon
Fopp good...
...Virgin good sometimes when they do that 5 for £30 thing. Say what you like about the place, but I've built up a lot of my CD and DVD collection with that...
innit
i was in there on monday. i also bought a sonic youth album (bad moon rising). and some johnny cash. loads of albums for a fiver = WIN
I'm trying
To get a job in the Camden one
Woop
...
(Fopp)
Round my way
Virgin is actually a bit better than HMV
The 'dance' section in my HMV is laughable, and I don't think they would know a Four Tet album if I jabbed them in the eye with it. Half interesting books for cheap though. Virgin is pretty gash, but at the moment they have cheap DVDs (I got Richard Pryor Live in Concert for 6.99, which = woo!)
Used and New on amazon
is where it's at. Never let me down once!
Music Exchange
The £1 second hand albums section. Genius.
WHAT?
fopp in camden? where?
i work in camden. i normally stay inside on lunch breaks as i hate the place. this could be very bad for my bank balance..
i've just found out where it is
and it's about a 30 second walk from where i work.
DOOM.
Where is it in Camden?
I went into Virgin yesterday to buy something educational for my Brazilian ambient jazz-loving brother.
Me: Have you got the new Lightning Bolt?
VirginGoon: How do you spell it? ... No
Me: Have you got any Fugazi?
VirginGoon: Fugatee? How do you spell it? ... No.
Me: What about Drive Like Jehu?
VirginGoon: Driving who where?
Me: UGH!
VirginGoon: Is there anything else I can help you with?
I used to work at Virgin on Oxford Street. Shame on me.
i used to work at virgin in milton keynes
we had to wear shirts with cows on them. some kind of "management joke" about concrete cows. ho bloody ho.
the camden FOPP is at 285 Camden High St, which is the section up towards the canal, past Jamestown Rd.
I think an extended lunch hour tomorrow is of the essence.
In Oxford St they now have a big circle on the floor in front of the steps that go down into Sound Control which is the MOD spot.
MOD. Meaning MANAGER ON DUTY. They have to stand there and survey the floor. Like the COCKS THEY ARE.
Oi!
look fuggin greatful you don't have to be that manager on dutty sometimes... tis fr=ucking lame AS...
can I not swear?
f.ucking lame...
see
i don't mind MVC. growing up in bedford, it was by FAR the best of our selection of music shops - andy's may have had a better range, but their prices were extortionate.
now MVC is all that's left in bedford, the chain closing down is worrying.
but i'm confused - aren't they part of Kingfisher (WH Smith etc)? How can that close down?
MVC
was always rubbish in colchester, always badly arranged and dirty
dirt cheap too mnd, but rubbish
also in the scummy end of town - often vomit in the doorway etc
Camden Fopp
Is in that big glass fronted shop just by the lock which used to be one of those Urban Outfitters-style over-expensive clothes shops for eejits.
I'm gonna spend every lunch time/all my wages there now. Gah...
no
they were, then they were a part of woolworths. in august they became independent and now they're bankrupt
(i work at mvc, i'm losing my job)
:D
I hate the fucker. Its the only alternative to Music Zone here in Burnley.
Its either cheap as chips (all Blur albums are £2), or stupidly extortionate.
I hate it.