I often walk past the former HMV store in Moorgate ( in the City of That London) and wonder how much longer the reborn company has left in it, what with Apple Music, Spotify, Netflix, You Tube et al, let alone pirate downloads. even the supermarkets don’t seem to be that bothered about selling shiny silver discs in quite the same way they were before. In an idle moment, I had a look to see how HMV are doing and was surprised, nay astonished, to find that the company is in rude health. How can this be? I almost never go in to my local store as Spotify/Netflix/Amazon are able to provide most of what I need. What’s going on? Are HMV being fattened up for a strategically timely sale or is it really still possible to sell music and film on the high street? I wouldn’t want to, see them go again but I had them marked as another lame duck struggling against the inevitable (see also Morrison’s. I give it five years or less before they’re bought by Aldi or Lidl.)