Name: Tony May Comment: I was never a lover of the Our Price chain. After losing my job at Stylus (redundant) I went for a job with Our Price but was unsuccessful. Now, in those days, I could pretty much quote catalogue numbers at you so I should have been a good catch. Anyway, I was subsequently told that I didn't get the job because Our Price liked to train people in the way THEY did things from scratch. Fair enough I thought but then why did they always seem to hire people with little or no musical knowledge?!
I famously found the group Body Count filed under Soul in the Ashford shop and I politely went to the counter to tell them about it (having worked in a record shop I know how annoying it is when the sleeve goes missing or something gets mis-filed) only to be told that it should be there! "Ice T is in the band", I was 'informed'. The fact that Ice T is to soul what Lemmy Kilmister is to reggae seemed to pass the assistant by! Oh, and don't start me off on their idea of 'white label remixes' either - they never even knew about the numbers scratched into the vinyl near the middle - ENY 151T is NOT a remix! (1 April 2012)
Name: Tony May
Comment: I was never a lover of the Our Price chain. After losing my job at Stylus (redundant) I went for a job with Our Price but was unsuccessful. Now, in those days, I could pretty much quote catalogue numbers at you so I should have been a good catch. Anyway, I was subsequently told that I didn't get the job because Our Price liked to train people in the way THEY did things from scratch. Fair enough I thought but then why did they always seem to hire people with little or no musical knowledge?!
I famously found the group Body Count filed under Soul in the Ashford shop and I politely went to the counter to tell them about it (having worked in a record shop I know how annoying it is when the sleeve goes missing or something gets mis-filed) only to be told that it should be there! "Ice T is in the band", I was 'informed'. The fact that Ice T is to soul what Lemmy Kilmister is to reggae seemed to pass the assistant by! Oh, and don't start me off on their idea of 'white label remixes' either - they never even knew about the numbers scratched into the vinyl near the middle - ENY 151T is NOT a remix!
(1 April 2012)