HMV

A perfect hiding place if your other half is shopping in Elements.
This HMV is probably one of the last big record shops left– and once again it gives me the chance to revive the old practice and listening to sampling CDs without a care in the world. It is through these record shops that I found Jamiroquai and Hed Kandi albums– these days there’s youtube but it is just so different.
The shop maintains the old HMV practice, even down to the décor which is still the grey and pink colour combination. It has certainly moved on in terms of what they sell and much like Hong Kong records; they now sell computer games/​consoles which I guess must be a major revenue for them to stay alive in the modern day market. I am, however, truly impressed how they still seem to stock so many different album labels despite sales being sales so slow.
The perfect thing with HMV is that they are always huge– that means they have a really wide collection of records and you can spend all day around here, milling about deciding what you might or might not get. This is also a personal thing whereby that means I don’t have to stand outside Zara looking like a child who just got lost.
Since there really aren’t many places left in town like this– I would certainly recommend it to anyone wanting to go back to their record hunting days. Also to those of you who don’t want to mill about aimlessly waiting for your partner.