HMV's fucked (1 Viewer)

[NoNo]

All stock excluding box sets is now €10 for 10. Still some good stuff in Henry Street today

 

[Jim Daniels]

All stock excluding box sets is now €10 for 10. Still some good stuff in Henry Street today

Yep. These 10 for €10

 

[ernesto]

Got three coasters and the last Crayonsmith record I've been meaning to buy since its release.
For €2.40

 

[dudley]

HMV Dundrum is shutting up tonight for good. Was any 20 items for a tenner just now, and free posters etc.

Got new Shellac, new Bjork, Caetano Veloso, Adebisi Shank, Groom, Crayonsmith, just loads of stuff I was surprised to see. Also things like Vietcong and New Pornographers, which I already have, but some gems.

 

[ernesto]

HMV Dundrum is shutting up tonight for good. Was any 20 items for a tenner just now, and free posters etc.

Got new Shellac, new Bjork, Caetano Veloso, Adebisi Shank, Groom, Crayonsmith, just loads of stuff I was surprised to see. Also things like Vietcong and New Pornographers, which I already have, but some gems.

Dang that's good

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I totally missed this.....ah well.

Some nice hauls there.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

down to copies of LPs of unsuccessful irish bands - if you want to pick up 16 copies of buffalo sunn's debut for 4 euro each this is your chance...

Have to admire those guys, they're like the terminator. You think they're down and they're regroup and form another band.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Have to admire those guys, they're like the terminator. You think they're down and they're regroup and form another band.

Who were they before/are they now?

 

[rettucs]

Who were they before/are they now?

they're still buffalo sunn.

In past guises they were (or were part of) the following;

- sweet jane
- brothers movement
- mainline

 

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[dudley]

God, such a *dick* move

 

[pavlos]

The wankers.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

God, such a *dick* move

whats that? tweets gone?

 

[dudley]

whats that? tweets gone?

Oh wow, it was a staff account for HMV Henry st, looks like it's been banned.

Basically, the staff were given their notice a couple of months ago, and promised redundancy packages to be paid today, only to find nothing in their bank accounts this morning, and the parent company announced bankruptcy last night or today, so no-one is getting paid.

The tweet was alleging, I think, that the parent company pulled the exact same stunt the last time HMV stores went out of business...


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@IrishTimes Hmv Ireland staff were due to get holiday & redundancy payments today have not been paid by Hilco pic.twitter.com/69bsdfZPvi

— Hmv Henry street (@HmvHenrystreet) September 9, 2016

HMV Henry Street’s Twitter this afternoon.

Hilco Capital, the parent company of HMV Ireland and Xtravision shut up shop on the former at the end of last month, and have apparently gone into liquidation the night before they were due to settle up with staff.

This is not the workers’ first rodeo with HMV.

Meanwhile…

…and HMV Limerick staff have spoken on their treatment by Hilco to the ‘sheet.

“It was first of all hard to hear that your job was gone, but the promise of a redundancy payment from HMV made that a bit easier and would have given people a bit of breathing room financially, while looking for new employment.With that now delayed it makes this a very difficult time for the staff that put Trojan work in right to the end, as we always did, to ensure the store closures went as smoothly as possible.”

Brendan Miller

“As well as that I think it’s the fact that a conscious decision was made by HMV Ireland/Hilco to lie to its employees and promise them a timely redundancy which was never going to be paid out. That was to ensure we were not in a position to use any leverage against them to ensure we got paid.”

Damien Mullane

 

[nooleen]

dirty bastards

 

[chris d]

complete fuckknuckles.

 

[IFF]

Disappointing for the staff.

I hope the redundancy processing time had reduced. At the worst of times, it was 9 months waiting for it

 

[pavlos]

Ex-HMV workers to receive monies

I hope this works out for the staff. Got an email earlier this evening promoting their new online store ("Ireland's Home of Entertainment - More choice than ever before!"). Tossers

 

[pete]

'It's the end of an era' - HMV shuts up shop in Ireland as website closes - Independent.ie

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Looks like the uk shops are now fucked