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Why do shops insist on having so much stock when its perfectly obvious that 85% of it will remain unsold? Its ludicrous. They shouldn't be stocking stuff that won't sell. No wonder record stores go bust. Whats the point of stocking records noones ever heard of or wont sell?

― Mr Angry Dogg, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, Luther Blisset! Sing along now!

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

On a side note, my local "alternative" record store doesn't stock anything by either Hole or the Dead Kennedies. Whussupwitdat?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

They sold out maaaaan.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course the other 85% sells - 2 years later in the sales when its reduced to a fraction of its original price. Apart from the Spaceballs soundtrack - for about 10 years HMV would wheel out 30 copies of it at every sale and nobody was buying. I bet its worth a fortune now as it contains some cool breakbeat.

Plenty of shops outside major urban centres actually only stock the stuff that will sell and man is it depressing. I've just moved out 'burbward and I will clearly never be shopping in the local music shop.

― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

All shops should be like MVE and have markdowns. That's what I call a free market - every consumer item finding its natural value (often 10p) in the marketplace. Strangely the big companies might disagree.

― Tom, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is that so deserving of so many exclamation points? Don't you know there's a punctuation shortage?

― Matt Riedl (veal), Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure I saw this same question on channel 4 teletext p452 last week. It was described as the most stupid thing ever mentioned on it. Anyone else read that? so much better than ceefax p561.

― Craig, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually it makes quite a lot of sense to only stock what will sell. Then shops wont be taken up by dvds/videos, mobile phones,playstation games etc that most 'Music' shops stock now to make some profit. Who acres about bands that only sell a few thousand albums. Some albums dont even sell past the 1st week of release. So whats the point of stocking them?

― James, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

firstly, record store owners are record junkies. these people DON'T know how to throw stuff away. secondly, over time it's perfectly natural for a small record store to accumulate a lot of crap -- even if there was one real clunker in each of your weekly orders that would still be roughly 52 clunkers a year. the trick is knowing when to 'cull the herd' and give some of that to the charity shops -- or -- if it's lp's: heat the vinyl and re-shape it to make ashtrays or bowls. if it's cd's use them for coasters and recycle the cases.

― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

For the love of God, who are you and why do you keep going on about unsold stock in record shops on every available platform?

― Fergal, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he made perfect sense. No wonder record shops around the country are going bankrupt when they cant sell stuff. And its always the same mid price 'classic rock' albums in the sales.

― Chuck, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, they can't return all of it, either, and if they're going to sell something other than, say, Hootie and the Blowfish, they have to order stuff that might not sell. The big box stores undercut prices on major releases, so what's left to sell but brilliant clinkers?

― Matt Riedl (veal), Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

In the big cities, the cheap albums are all great. In Northampton, we get obscure bands that had, like, a Maker Breaker back in August 1997, and split up three years ago after a bad gig in Plymouth.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Apart from the Spaceballs soundtrack
Spaceballs OST == wonderful trash.

― Lord Custos III, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ferg_Or? are you the Ferg who used to run 'The Church Of ferg' on nmechat?

― Shannon, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you a 29 year old Scottish man pretending to be a Mansun fan on a message board? And some older boys made me do it.

― Fergal, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting. My brother works in a record shop, and he is baffled at some of the albums they decide to buy in loads of. The reason he gives is: the man in charge of buying stock is in awe of one of the shop workers, and will buy in 100's of any album he says will be good. For instance, he bought in loads and loads of the recent Tom Waits albums which, whether you think they are great or not, were never going to be mammoth sellers. There's loads of back catalogue that people in the shop keep coming in asking for, but the stock- buying guy cant buy them cos they won't give him any more money after previous displays of stupidity.

My point? Eh, I don't have one. Continue!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My understanding is that this thread is a hoax based on a guy that really did write that letter to Teletext and rant about the same topic in a chatroom.

― Fergal, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

13 years late but it really was that guy ferg. (I pm'd him on nme chat telling him to post it here to wind you up)

― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:52 (nine years ago)

I wonder what mr angry dogg thinks now

― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 25 July 2015 15:05 (nine years ago)

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