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I think that record stall round the back of Goodge Street is already gone, haven't seen it months

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

New one in Oxford too. Where Massive Records, home of staggeringly expensive vinyl, used to be.

― caek (caek), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

new Fopp opening 222 tottenham court road. London
dunno when...
thats up by Habitat and Heals, looks pretty big, although I hope they dont try to put a cafe in it lke they did with the edinburgh rose st. one.

-- danny boy (daniel__hamilto...), June 15th, 2006.

hurrah!

MC -- what part of cheap cds don't you like? what should a record shop do? sell them moer expensively? i don't get the beef.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, where Massive Records, home of specialist vinyl - and CDs - you couldn't get anywhere else in Oxford, used to be.

That answer your question, Henry?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone sells CDs cheaply these days

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Rough Trade shop to thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

not really, given that they're going for two completely different markets. specialist record shops were closing before fopp came along -- i think *every* specialist shop in cambridge did.

xpost

maybe, but fopp has super-cheap stuff.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ray's Jazz Shop to thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

never bought a single record from massive in six years of going there.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Rather depressingly, I note that Selectadisc has started selling DVDs, shunting the cheap CDs out of the way so all us of google-eyed cineastes can get a better view of their £4.99 copies of "Mutiny On the Buses" et al.

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe, but fopp has super-cheap stuff.

Have you been to HMV lately?

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The same, mainstream back catalogue can't-shift super-cheap stuff as well!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Er, Selectadisc?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post

I saw Massive Records had closed when I was last in Oxford, which I think is a shame- they did have a huge range of dance stuff, and it was a big draw for DJs all over the south of England. No web presence any more apparently. That second hand place the other side of Gloucester Green will be next to go.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

If Avid falls, Oxford falls!

(also if it goes it will remove my last excuse for visiting Oxford city centre)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Selectadisc. Yes that place that was taken over by Sister Ray with the promise that the takeover would not change their policy vis a vis the stock they bought and sold.

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

... and where you can now buy "Slap Her, She's French" on DVD for £2.99!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

They seem to have kept their promise so far. Now you can get lots of super-cheap stuff in the racks at SelectaRay but they have a far WIDER RANGE of stock which couldn't be sustained by chainstores. Take a look in any HMV other than the one in Oxford Circus and you'll see what I mean.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I know that Marcello, but slippery slope innit?

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Then the streets of our town will be a pallid parade of identikit chains selling the same forty CDs BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE SUPER-CHEAP

in which event I shall have no option but to retire to my yellowing spines and ruefully golden memories of days of plenty.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"The whole world as Mister CD?"
"That is my hope. What's yours?"
"I'd like to be the first man on the moon."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" etc.

(McGoohan/McKern, p.p. MC)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i am terminally mainstream. bring on the £5 double-discs of 'collateral'!

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Just bought "Beta band" best of 2CD for £5.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

the mainstream should be terminated.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

no gags about beta band best of 2cd lucky to fill half of one cd etc plz.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

selectadisc pre-sister ray sold DVDs too - they've been in the store for at least two years (on the back right-hand side of the shop, maybe they've moved them to a more prominent position recently!) but again - most of the cheap DVDs sold by selectadisc are as cheap (or cheaper) in the HMV Oxford Circus

haha xpost i was also searching for that beta band 'gag'

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the 2nd CD is a live gig, so I guess yr OTM.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe they've moved them to a more prominent position recently!

As I said, they've been moved to be more in-yer-face in line with modern retail torture, sorry, techniques

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Fopp have got a box with the first 3 Duran Duran albums for £7. I managed to resist.

It is strange, isn't it, the Mutiny On The Buses thing? It's not like they're trying to attract a Mutiny On The Buses clientele, they just seem to be hoping that all the J. Spaceman fans are into Mutiny On The Buses as well.

Slap Her, She's French? Sounds worth a punt.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I just made up the "Mutiny on the Buses" and "Slap Her, She's French" bit. Improvisation, dear boy!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I saw that Duran box and was going to mention it to youse. It's certainly never going to be an "oh no" thread in my case.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I should have said, ""Mutiny on the Buses" and "Slap Her, She's French" or others of that stamp and kidney" perhaps

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Holiday on the Buses is good.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Likewise, I realise that the phrase "the first three Duran Duran albums for £7" is a better straight man than Ernie Wise, but please resist...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, Dadaismus. I am a bit slow on the uptake.

In fairness, they do have a fair smattering of "off-kilter" crap as well.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd buy On The Buses dvds if they were that cheap! Reg varney rocks!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I started a new job in Soho last week so I will soon be bankrupt from visiting Berwick St every lunchtime.

When did the bargain basement in Mr CD disappear? I used to find some good stuff in there occasionally. It's been 4 years since I was last working in central London, so it could have been ages ago. Was surprised to see Selectadisc gone and Sister Ray moved. Also surprised to see Reckless still there since the Camden & Islington branches shut down, figured they'd gone under or something.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

where do you get all your money from, Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Bargain basement in Mr. CD only disappeared recently, but it looks like they've moved the stock upstairs - or most of it. (xpost)

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been deterred from buying anything out of Mister CD since the last two occasions when I did so, the security alarm went off in every other shop I subsequently entered and it was embarrassing to have my bags searched every bloody time. On both occasions it was the Mister CD CDs, so to speak, which set the alarms off.

Just a warning.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The last thing I bought out of Mr CD was... a DVD! In fact, I've only just got (was given actually) a DVD player and it's the only DVD I've ever bought because I've realised I have no idea why anyone would want to own a DVD. (The DVD was Parliament/Funkadelic gig from 1976. £3)

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

where do you get all your money from, Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy?

Thats why i said i'd buy it if they were that cheap Not smoking or drinking makes these things affordable.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I've realised I have no idea why anyone would want to own a DVD.

wtf!

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Neither have I, frankly.

I've never seen the point of collecting DVDs. You watch them once and put them back on the shelf.

The great thing about listening to music is that you can do other things at the time, e.g. reading or writing or cooking dinner. You can't do that with DVDs so that also puts me off them.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like watching films on video either. I suppose DVDs might be good for TV series and the like - comedies only of course.

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Comedies and comedy films are pretty much the only thing i watch more than once apart from old Dr Who which I tape on UK Gold. I think I own about 10 dvds at most. "M" and "Goodfellas" is probably the only ones ive seen more than once. I dont even think ive watched all of the Underworld and Pavement dvds i have.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

But Teh Capitalists think every man jack of us is obsessed with owning DVDs hence the fact that they are falling out of very newspaper you buy and that they have elbowed CDs to a small windswept and unloved corner of every record shop you go into (slight exaggerations of course)

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure it'll end up being no exaggeration at all.

In which case, it's the end of the world.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Do record shops still insist on selling mobile phones too? Our Price in Hamilton shut down after they did that. No record shops here at all now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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