HMV (Guildford)

This comment (which was inadvertently posted on the HMV Croydon page) is referring to HMV Guildford, which was on Swan Lane, Guildford:
"HMV was situated in Swan Lane where the doll's hospital used to be and where Lakeland now is, I remember buying XTC and Bluenote Jazz LPs in there. Paul Young did a signing of No Parlez in there in the early 80s, there was a good poster and t shirt section in there, I remember I wore a Frankie Goes To Hollywood t-shirt, bought from there, in Red Square in Moscow a few years later, it had Lenin on the front and it didn't go down well with the guards around the Kremlin whilst I was on holiday with my family."

I used to go to this store for most of the mid to late 90s. I would have 20 pounds pocket money for the day which had to include the train ticket from Liphook I would not eat so I could afford to buy a CD single or tape. I used to gorp at the expensive cds wondering when I would be able to afford them. The I would go to Bens collectors records and buy great albums on 12 inch vinyl for a quid. I would be happy if I had scored a cd a record some josticks and a poster and been able to get back home. Then I would play the new music I had hunted down in my incence soaked hippy bedroom with my friends and then back to school on the Monday... Happy days!