Current one: the new Nick Drake CD.
Am I a stingygit? Or what stuff you waiting for the price to drop to nowt much?
― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 23 May 2004 17:49 (9 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:29 (8 years ago) Permalink
― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:35 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:00 (8 years ago) Permalink
"The psychedelic sounds of" and "Easter Everywhere"
With extra tracks and booklet, etc. £5 each.
Oh, and the first two Suicide CD sets, also £5.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 09:56 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:14 (8 years ago) Permalink
xpost Stewaaart! Next to the old co-op which is now Primark. Across the road from the old "Captain's Cabin"
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:15 (8 years ago) Permalink
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:30 (8 years ago) Permalink
I got the Suicide ones from Fopp in Reading.
The staff are a bit miserable in the London one (which is at the bottom of the upper part of Shaftesbury Avenue - more or less Covent Garden - next to Charing Cross Road).
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:40 (8 years ago) Permalink
― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:39 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:43 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:46 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:49 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:51 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:23 (7 years ago) Permalink
no other shop comes even close.
but Im old enough to remember the 3 dance 12"'s for a fiver period.
― danny boy, Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:25 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:28 (7 years ago) Permalink
Curiously, I tend to feel exactly the reverse, probably 'cos Selectadisc has an infinitely wider range of stock and overall lower prices (i.e. lots of £4.99s, virtually no £15s).
The original Fopp shop in Renfield Street was a splendid place, even if Gordon the owner insisted on calling me "George Russell" every time I came in.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:30 (7 years ago) Permalink
xp
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:30 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:45 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:31 (7 years ago) Permalink
Bunch of lovely jazz and soul vinyl for £5 and £7!
Mingus - Oh yeah! and Blues and Roots for £5 each
Coltrane - Ole and Coltrane's Sound (most underrated according to AMG) £5 each
Also Meters, Betty Davis, Curtis et al for £7. Fopp used to be great for cheap classic vinyl but it dropped off for a while. Happy days are here again.
Only bought Oh Yeah today, but shall pick up a few of these soon.
Also on CD for £3 - Fall, Replacements, Meat Puppets. :)
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
Mind you, the MVC in Newport has been selling ridiculous records for silly money this last month - "The trip" (both Tom Middleton and St Etienne) for £4, "Produced by Trevor Horn" for the same, "Only Yazoo" and "Hot shots II" for £2...
― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:59 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:13 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 05:55 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:11 (7 years ago) Permalink
I go the complete Spritualized vol. 2, which I was quite pleased about because I had been waiting for it to come down to a fiver. Then I listened to it and I was not so pleased.
There was quite a lot of good stuff going cheap, I may have to go back and have another look.
Advantage of Fopp over Selectadisc: you can take stuff back if you don't like it, or if you are a tightarse.
I am more overwhelmed by Bob Dylanism than Franz Ferdinandness these days.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:08 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:15 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:21 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:35 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:53 (7 years ago) Permalink
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:24 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:24 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
I can still take NYC Man back, being within my Sucker And See period.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:46 (7 years ago) Permalink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:14 (7 years ago) Permalink
Anyway, I'm very interested to see how this pans out here in Glasgow, on many fronts...
Swapping old CDs for £1 a pop seems very appealing, as does £2 secondhand trawling. Which of course points to their strategy being sound on at least one very important point; drawing in customers...
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
In fairness if it's a credit only deal it'll probably work out much less than a pound a disc.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
£1 for decent cds is a rip-off tho. Thats if they get any.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's where a blanket price falls down; it's easy to implement, but the customer is ripped off for 'good/rare/valuable' cds, while the shop is ripping itself off when folks bring in Natalie Imbruglia, Beverly Knight, Take That, any older chart cd etc etc etc...
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
So don't take in decent stuff ffs.
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh i have no intention in doing that. But some gullible people might.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
if they don't care, they're not getting ripped off
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
but Fopp will still it for £2, even it it's worth more?
― bham, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
They might, because the time it takes them to check every CD to make sure it's not an original issue of "Lick my decals" would be more than the potential increase in revenue.
or something...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Barcode scanning linked to amazon marketplace prices should be easy to implement.
― just call me brian (krakow), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Big Eno deal on, presumably not just confined to Glasgow Byres Road. The remastered digipacks for a fiver and the rest for three a pop. So there's the song albums, plus On Land, Apollo etc.
Also some nice new jazz stuff - Prestige, Riverside, Original Jazz Classics stuff. So loads of Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey etc. Ended up with Monk play Ellington, Monk's Music, Eric Dolphy Out There, Sonny Rollins Out West, and The Quintet (Parker, Gillespie, Mingus, Roach, Powell).
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Friday, 30 September 2011 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
£3 for the jazz, I should add.
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Friday, 30 September 2011 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rare indeed is the second hand CD that is worth more than £2. Obviously there are exceptions like Decals but by and large there is practically no collectors market in used CDs.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 30 September 2011 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tell that to MVE.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I manage to sell CDs for pretty good money on ebay, but yes mainstream or unfashionable back catalogue CDs don't go for much if at all.
― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Now if they'd just put the eno reissues down to £3.
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
They have! Bought Here Come The Warm Jets, On Land, Apollo, Music For Films and Before And After Science from Byres Road Glasgow. These were all they had.
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
the cramps : songs the lord taught usthe cramps : psychedlic jungle
£3 each. at last.been on a cramps crush now for a few weeks since i picked up off the bone, so well chuffed these were added to the cheapskate pile.
― mark e, Monday, 10 October 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bought Apollo and Discreet Music £3 each from Gower St. London. Fancy going back for few more Eno ones. Will prob try the £1 off with an old CD/DVD offer thing when I buy something reasonably priced.
― mmmm, Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Monsieur le Fopp in Covent Garden had many great bargains yesterday, such as a few BFI Flipside DVD and Blu-ray releases for £3 or £5 (I got Little Malcolm, Lunch Hour and Voice Over), as well of plenty of other similarly priced DVDs of interest ( Sleep Furiously, for example) in their special clearance bins. Bargain of the day was probably the Stevie Wonder box set with a few minor scuffs on the packaging for £5 (also available in perfect nick for £15, itself a bargain) but I somehow resisted this.
All this and I think I passed Marcello downstairs in Sounds of the Universe.
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was there yesterday lunchtime so it's highly likely! Sorry I missed you but my mind was on the curious vinyl there (all at competitive Sounds of the Universe prices of course).
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah! You were very polite, said excuse me to get by and everything.
― PJ Miller, Saturday, 31 March 2012 07:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I see HMV have started doing the trade-in thing, so they have a big rack of crap at £2 each as well.
― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 08:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Perhaps they've got a deal to send them over to China for recycling into street furniture like all those Robbie Williams CDs
― mmmm, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
They've had some good jazz 2 for £5 offers on in Glasgow lately (and elsewhere I'd imagine). The Impulse 2-in-1s went pretty quickly (got Black Saint/Mingusx3) but there are bunch of Riverside and Prestige albums there: late 50s Trane, loads of Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner (got the awesome Enlightenment live album from 1973) etc
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
McCoy Tyner (got the awesome Enlightenment live album from 1973
incredible record, a+++ purchase
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, first read about it on an ILX thread, so I doff my cap to yourself and anyone else who raved about it. Nice to have a proper copy. I'm also a big fan of Sahara, which I picked up a couple of years back. Saw him in Prague last year - free concert in Old Town Square - and while he wasn't going for it like on those classic sides, it was a classy set of Latin tinged post-bop with Gary Bartz on sax. There were a couple of other Tyner CDs there, so I shall investigate further.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Different thing:
In Fopp CovGard, they have a bunch of "X-Factor Karaoke Kits" for £5
What they actually are, is a fairly decent microphone and mixer. Decent for a fiver anyway, metal not plastic.
I got one a while ago at a 'outlet' for £10, did one of the ILX Xmas track vocals using it, not bad...
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
(Probably a fiver's worth of cables in the box at least anyway..)
very little in the way of interesting cds in cov garden fopp last night, more and more of the ground floor seems to be given over to, mostly foreign, dvds. but that's fine by me. some Bela Tarr dvds for a fiver each (Damnation, Man from London, Werckmeister, but i didn't see Satantango) and the Wajda war trilogy box that's been on my amazon wishlist ever since i caught the first two on Film4 and then deleted the last before watching it in some bizarre PVR accident.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 08:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
I was tempted by the Theo Angelopoulos box sets the other day, but maybe I should work through the 20+ hours of unwatched DVDs I already have rather than buying anything new. Still, they were cheap...
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
(20+ hours of unwatched DVDs... i hear this. have about 20 in front of the tv and have just bought outer limits box set that was 26 hours for £12. but i just think of them as choices rather than an excess)
― koogs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
A Bella Union side-rack promotion in the Nottingham Fopp has John Grant's Queen Of Denmark - my favourite album of the decade thus far - at a mere three quid.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Do Fopp still buy 2nd hand CDs?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
The CovGard and Bloomsbury Fopps still do, but the used racks are nothing to write home about.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
They are the definition of "unwanted", really.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
XP Mike T, if they have the Thousands record in that Bella Union rack, you might like it too.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
Thanks for the tip, will take a look next time I'm in...
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
£30 in fopp this afternoon, could easily have been twice that - the current dvd selection matches my tastes well
unthanks - bairns (cd) £3the thing (dvd 2011) £3akira (dvd) £5la belle et la bete (bfi dvd) £5innocents (bfi dvd) £5bed sitting room (bfi dvd+br) £9(also had loads of bergman, lots more bfi, especially the flipside range, lots of kurosawa (although the sets were more expensive than amazon iirc))
― koogs, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
Not Fopp, possibly, but the HMV I went to had most of the Blur deluxe editions for £3 each!
― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2012 12:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
Has FOPP been picking up the Zappa reissues? Been wondering, just in case I get to be near one in the foreseeable future.
― Stevolende, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
Last time I was there, no.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2012 14:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Glasgow Union Street branch had a copy of each Zappa last time I was in.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
but pricewise?
― Mark G, Saturday, 13 October 2012 21:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
Full price. £10-£14 or something.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 07:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
Right so probably better to get mailorder where the unit is € so a bit cheaper. But really need to know if issues with Grand Wazoo not playing were ironed out. Seemed to be pretty widespread.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
BFI sale on at the moment. Got the early films of Peter Greenaway vol.1, Geoffrey Jones Rhythm Of Film and COI Police And Thieves for £16. Also got Ilya Khrzhanovskii's amazing 4 for £7.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:42 (6 months ago) Permalink
That double Beta Band double DVD was just purchased for a mere £3.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:43 (6 months ago) Permalink
The Delta Band's double DVD?
― good naber He help get undr control (sic), Saturday, 17 November 2012 00:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
for a quarter of the price
― Mark G, Saturday, 17 November 2012 12:47 (6 months ago) Permalink