Premium Collection (HMV Exclusives) Thread

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by hivemind

Interesting. Britannia. Use to buy tapes from them. Do you remember Bensonworld based in London. Back in the early days they use to sell brand new rental tapes for 60-80 pounds a pop. Then they went to selling retail and finally DVD. I think the company went bust. You were lucky enough to work in the VHS industry.

I ended up working in HMV in Truro when it opened in 2003. Now it's downsized and ended up in Pydar Street in Truro. It's the closest I got to working with physical media again. There's tapes I still have in my collection from those days when I use to travel to HMV in Guildford back in the 1980's.

The prices of tapes in HMV in the mid-1980's was crazy. They often had those Warner big box tapes that were re-issues for £14.99 and then quite a few ex-rental titles that had only been used three times, then they would be sold in HMV or Virgin. I remember buying Return of the Jedi Crocodile Dundee and the first RCA/Columbia release of Krull. Some of those tapes cost about 35 to 50 pounds each. Insane days, considering back then there was no retail market for VHS tapes until 1986.

I used to get Christmas cards from Ron Benson of said Bensonsworld - I love the old catalogue lists they sent out. Of course it all lives on in the label they set up - Eureka.