The Death of HMV: The Limits of a Digital World
The Cost of Freedom: The Limits of a Digital World By Grant Kanigan Francis Barraud's painting "His Master's Voice," after which HMV was named "I can't believe it, The way you look sometimes, Like a trampled flag on a city street, Oh yeah. And I don't want it, The things you're offering me, Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah I'm a 21st century digital boy, I don't know how to read But I've got a lot of toys, My daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual, My mommy's on valium, She's so ineffectual..." - Bad Religion, " 21st Century Digital Boy " The news hit without subtlety, like a bag of bricks to the forehead; HMV is closing it's doors forever. Some might say it's just a store, a retail chain, or a big business in need of closing; out with the old, in with the new; all change is good change, the times, they are-a changin', and so on and so fort