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| - hmv is an excellent place to go if you either hate music or love music but are a masochist. this hmv claims to have the best selection of their stores in calgary, which is grim and depressing. so on the upside, although you won't be able to find something depressing like tori amos, you'll feel so depressed just being there that you won't need the CD after all.
another helpful feature of the store, if you haven't been lately, is that they've stopped allowing their staff to select music to play and started feeding non-stop commercials for whatever pussycat doll tripe they're pushing. whereas once music stores were intimidating, library-like mazes of choice and self-definition, you can now safely make your purchase knowing that the voice on the satellite radio thinks very highly of sporty spice's latest album of classic rock ballads.
to be fair, there are a couple of nice kids working there who know subversive and underloved bands such as the little-known 'arcade fire.' but on tmy most recent visit, a cute, pallid twilight girl with some very edgy, 'alternative' piercings informed me that if the 2011 blondie release i was looking for was called 'parallel lines,' then no, they didn't have it in stock. i'll give you a minute to process that in its entirety.
sure, if you have no soul i'm sure you'll be pleased to discover you can purchase dumb and dumberer for the low, low price of $3. but most of the times i've sifted through their discount dvd bin, i've been less struck by the great bargains, and more offended in defense of some of my favourite classics. spinal tap should cost more than a justin beiber cd. maybe you disagree, but i think the only way to read this is a full-on rain-of-toads sign of the coming apocalypse.
on a positive note, hmv is always in plentiful supply of smooth shiny posters of your favourite bands and singers, including robert pattison, taylor lautner, angry birds, and 'arry pottah. maybe you're sneering your nose up at this, but it's one stop shopping for all your slash fanfic shrine needs: add some glitter glue and you've got a crossover/mashup orgy of teen heartthrobs. also find super-authentic che guevera belts and really retro ramones t-shirts for people who have never listened to a single song by the ramones, or think 'che' is this cool indian tea.
and how could i not mention the carefully selected book section? - which juxtaposes catcher in the rye with twilight, twilight, and more twilight. rest assured, the book-inventory-choosing masterminds at hmv have pretty high literary standards.
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