Philistinism?
Dec. 23rd, 2006 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylWhy is it that Coventry has thousands of branches of Pound Kingdom and Hyper-mega-value-mart but nowhere with a decent selection of classical CDs?
Of the various music stores, HMV has a token classical section which seems to sell nothing but compilations of the best adagios ever of all time, and while Virgin claims to stock music by a variety of composers, each section only seems to contain ten copies of the same CD — fine if you want to buy Mozart's Requiem, not so good if you want to buy the Jupiter symphony.
In the end, I accepted defeat and went to Birmingham, which proved to rather more catholic in it's musical tastes.
Of the various music stores, HMV has a token classical section which seems to sell nothing but compilations of the best adagios ever of all time, and while Virgin claims to stock music by a variety of composers, each section only seems to contain ten copies of the same CD — fine if you want to buy Mozart's Requiem, not so good if you want to buy the Jupiter symphony.
In the end, I accepted defeat and went to Birmingham, which proved to rather more catholic in it's musical tastes.
