Deryk Barker wrote regarding Harold Moore's Records: >I'm afraid my experience has been rather less positive - although I've >only visited the store half a doxzen or so times. > >Also, some of their staff can be incredibly snotty and condescending - I >have nearly walked out on occasion, I've been so offended by something an >assistant has said. I never mind a bit of that. I much prefer it to the "smile training" you come accross so often in modern stores. Part of the appeal of the place. I know someone who once went in for a CD of Janet Baker and was promptly given a lecture on her "dreadful" North of England accent. He was allowed him to leave with the disc concerned, though feeling he had just been given detention by the Headmaster. Hard to find CDs AND an education! What more could you want? ;-) On at least three occasions I have had to pick my way through the younger assistants enjoying cigarettes on the step outside. Maybe they were just gasping for a drag when you went in Deryk. I have to say, though, that Harold himself once gave me a free copy of Gramophone when I told him I was from out of town. "Something to read on the train," he said. Tony Duggan Staffordshire, United Kingdom.