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Originally Posted by Big Ears
When I first visited HMV in Oxford Street, it had separate rooms or floors for different formats, so there was a floor for cassettes at one end and eight-track cartridges at the other. This was mindblowingly amazing to me at the time. It was on Thursday 18th April 1974. How do I know? Answer = because I bought Moontan by Golden Earring on cassette for £2.75 and kept the receipt! It (the receipt) was a vivid purple colour. I bought the album on CD twenty years later and it's great.
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I'll comment on Trollheart' s review later and also listen to
The Light but I just had to answer the above when I saw it. I know that HMV so well, I used to go there in the 1980s and it was still two floors then as well. It was about 50 mins by train and tube from where I lived and the first ever album I got from there was the Doors Greatest Hits. I always had great memories going to that store, it was an adventure just to see so many albums all in one place, Virgin down the other end of Oxford Street just never had the same appeal.