Whether the doors will open again or not remains to be seen, but I will miss the shop when I go to my local shopping centre. It was a great place to browse around. In early January, in fact, I was there and I bought the first season of the old TV series Kung Fu.
One caller to Today FM summaries this aspect of the situation perfectly. She said that "HMV was like a creche for husbands. It was a great place to send them when you wanted a half an hour of peace".
Here is a picture of one of these lost souls:
