Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/11/90)
Really-From: cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole) Could someone please re-post or e-mail the info for ordering the KT boxed set from HMV (I believe that was the name)? Until recently, a friend of mine was to be in England on business during the week of the announced release date. That is no longer the case and I am now forced to find another way to get my hands on the boxed set. None of the local record stores have even heard of the boxed set yet (but I'm still checking). They say they can order it if I give them an order number. However, since the set is apparently a limited edition, by the time I get an order number there probably won't be any boxed sets left. Anyone with any suggestions on how to tackle this? I've got to have that boxed set. If I don't get my hands on the box set, I'll be the guy at the mall machine-gunning the record store employees. -- Robert
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/18/90)
Really-From: derek%sunstroke@sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) > From: cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole) > Could someone please re-post or e-mail the info for ordering the KT > boxed set from HMV (I believe that was the name)? HMV stands for "His Master's Voice". The company symbol is referred to in the States as the RCA dog (Jack Russel terrier looking into the cone of an antique phonograph). I am not sure if there is any connection between the companies. HMV does not have a record label or publishing company of their own like RCA. They are one of the UK's big record chains along with Virgin Records and W.H Smith (a general stationery store which also sells music). The staff at HMV, upon my experience seem a little better informed than those at Virgin Records. This should be all the contact info you need. From the US: mail order dept. number : 011 44 71 631 3423 Fax number : 011 44 71 580 4461 General phone number : 011 44 580 6648 Address : Mail Order Dept., HMV, 150 Oxford St., London W1N ODJ UK I have no experience with them myself using mail order but posts on rec.music.cd have indicated they are efficient and relatively reliable. I always personally check out their store when I am in London. >Anyone with any suggestions on how to tackle this? I've got to have that >boxed set. If I don't get my hands on the box set, I'll be the guy at the >mall machine-gunning the record store employees. >-- Robert Me too. My import supplier is bringing the release to the attention of his import supplier. I will try that route first. If that does not work out I'll be calling friends in England to get it for me. (Oh please let there be one for me). Many of us will be on tenterhooks until it is in our eager, sweaty (this may not apply to everyone of course) hands. Derek _____________________________________________________________________________ Derek Langsford | "It could take me all my life, Polperro->Edinburgh->San Diego | or it could only take a moment..." derek@sunstroke.sdsu.edu | Kate Bush, Love & Anger _____________________________________________________________________________ The first line applies to my Ph.D :-(
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/19/90)
Really-From: deal-jc@osl.ncsu.edu (James C. Deal) From Robert Cole: Could someone please re-post or e-mail the info for > ordering the KT boxed set from HMV (I believe that was the name)? > [...] None of the local record stores have even heard of the boxed > set yet (but I'm still checking). They say they can order it if I > give them an order number. However, since the set is apparently a > limited edition, by the time I get an order number there probably > won't be any boxed sets left. I would also be interested in more info on how to get hold of one of these boxed sets. If you know of the place mentioned above or some other place (preferably one that takes credit cards) that sells (or will be selling) this boxed set, please post about it. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | deal-jc@osl.csc.ncsu.edu < NC State Universtity > James Christopher Deal | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/22/90)
Really-From: Justin Bur <justin@iro.umontreal.ca> > From: derek%sunstroke@sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) > HMV stands for "His Master's Voice". The company symbol is referred > to in the States as the RCA dog (Jack Russel terrier looking into the > cone of an antique phonograph). I am not sure if there is any > connection between the companies. HMV does not have a record label or > publishing company of their own like RCA. They are one of the UK's > big record chains along with Virgin Records and W.H Smith The history of the big record companies and their trademarks is something like the history of a large, unruly, and incestuous family. In the world outside the USA and Canada, the RCA dog belongs to EMI - in fact, HMV is EMI's classical music label as well as their record retailing chain. EMI and RCA were closely associated until the 1950s, when the agreement ended and EMI set up Capitol Records. (Columbia is another name split among companies: CBS (Sony) owns it in Canada and the USA, EMI owns it in Europe. Deutsche Grammophon was EMI's German subsidiary until it was confiscated during one of the world wars! More of this trivia in all its confusion in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, ed. Donald Clarke (1989; Viking hardcover 0 670 80349 9; seen at Wordsworth (Cambridge MA) and Virgin Megastore (London)).) HMV opened a bunch of not very useful shopping mall stores in Canada (with an empty grey space where the dog symbol belongs) a year or two ago, followed by a decent large one in downtown Montreal last fall; the Toronto store is now under construction at Yonge & Dundas. The Montreal store has an import section, and maybe they'll even get the box - I don't know if they take special orders, though, and it's surely safer and possibly cheaper to order from HMV in London. As for W H Smith, they also operate in Britain as Our Price Records and Paperchase (stationery), and in Canada as Classic Bookshops and Celebration (greeting cards), and perhaps a few other names too... justin