HMV goes under administration What does this mean to the Music in dustry

0:00 I found out this morning that HMV has gone into administration

Alright ladies and gentlemen, I found out this morning that HMV has gone into administration. HMV is short for His Master's Voice. Old school company. You may have seen the picture of a dog looking down a rather large trumpet which is a very very old school gramophone, old school vinyl turntable. Now this is a huge blow to the music industry because lots of jobs are going to be lost and this huge mega store I'm going to refer slightly to a very good friend of mine. Call Danny J Lewis, also known as Enzyme Black. Now he did a post on Facebook a while ago broaching the subject. I'll try and find that and put a link down there for you. But what is going on? Is it because people are just downloading music? Now if you do download music and you pay for it, that's fine, it's perfectly legal. But this is what I feel, I really truly feel, you're missing out.

You're missing out what happened years ago. Because when I started DJing, like a lot of other people possibly watching this video, we used to go to a shop, we used to buy vinyl. And the weird thing is, and I look back and I think, yeah, I can remember these times. And alright, it still can happen because there are still vinyl stores out there, but few and far between. You'd pick up a piece of vinyl and you'd open it up for the first time. You'd take the record with the dust cover still on out of the hard sleeve and then you'd pull the record out of the dust cover and it would stick to the record because it was so new. And every single record would have a different kind of smell or a feel and it was very new and exciting to look at. You had something to hold. This was you.

2:13 It's a shame because today's music lovers are missing out what really

As best as you could get, you were actually physically holding the music. Now, you download a track, you put it onto your PC and with any luck, you've got the thumbnail, you've got an image. So, it's a shame because today's music lovers are missing out what really happened. Now, I did a video ages ago about opening a rekordbox and look at my set and here it was on an SD card or a thumb drive or something like that. Years ago, if not that long ago, a DJ would turn up with a huge rekordbox. And alright, technology has moved on to make it far easier for you to find your music, but the joy, the happiness, the wonder of getting big muscles has virtually gone. I still like to use vinyl. Yvette, my partner, still likes to use vinyl. So what is happening with the music industry? How do you feel about HMV potentially stopping trading? What's going on? Your thoughts and comments. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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