This month it was the Friday Miscellanea from May 5. The discussion revolved around record shops, bookstores, and a review of Philip Ewell's new book. Sample comment:
I wouldn’t expect a reopened HMV to have many recordings for sale, let alone the sort of rich classical-music inventory that was a feature of some megastores before the turn of the millennium. In Europe today, bookshops have severely cut their stock of actual books, instead selling stationery or hip knickknacks – if you actually want a book to read, you’re supposed to order it from an online shop. So, I would expect a revived HMV to focus more on music memorabilia than recordings, if not the very same unrelated items that bookshops rely on to make money.
I noticed an interesting phenomenon recently. Some books I have ordered from Amazon in hard copy that are what you might call "out of the mainstream" such as the 1611 King James version of the Bible as well as Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible in English translation have all been printed in Texas within days of my ordering them. Print on demand in other words.
Let's supplement this with Tchaikovsky's Hymn of the Cherubim.
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