Oh, Monseur le Fopp, you are really spoiling us...

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Marcello, Impulse was gone by the late 90s. I used to love getting 99p 7" singles and cd singles from there. Albums were expensive unless they got them from the reps. But they did stock vinyl.
Saturday afternoon was a nightmare in there though because all the kids went in and asked to hear the happy hardcore 12"s and tapes from the rez.

WH Smiths only stock a handful of cds now,Woolies is shite.
Asda probably stock more cds than them all put together.
Never been in Sainsburys or the new Morrisons.

I'm surprised Asda have never moved into stocking lesser known niche genres. If they get a good reputation then people will go there. Of course that would kill off indie shops, but I doubt asda would care about that. And its not like an indie shop in Hamilton would last more than 3 months anyway.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dadaismus was right, the DVDs are taking over Selectadisc/Sister Ray. There is a definite drop in the quality of the shopping experience there. Unless you dig vinyl, I suspect. The nearest thing I could find to "Slap Her, She's French" was "Soft Beds, Hard Landings" or something, £4.99.

Fans of Mr Bongo's Brazillian beats series might like to know that you can get 2 x 2CD boxes for £5 each. I wouldn't mind them.

Also Fopp in Covent Garden(ish) have bucked the trend, by giving over a load of DVD space to books. Or perhaps they've just moved them.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Used to go to the Hamilton Impulse too. Many a 12" single I've bought from there though as you say a bit expensive for albums. They also had a branch in Motherwell where, when I worked there (in Motherwell not Impulse), I would spend many a lunch hour (if I wasn't in Woolworths - seem to remember buying the first Bjork album in there).

Our Price was always a horribly over priced shop though I remember when I got my first grant cheque as a student going and buying 4 or 5 Beatles albums on cassette out of there.

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

WH Smith in the Regent Shopping Centre, back in the '70s when it was still John Menzies, used to stock jazz. I remember as a kid buying Ornette Coleman's Crisis! on Impulse - original gatefold sleeve, easily £100+ if you saw it in Intoxica! now - for £1.49 out of there. It was worth the strange and somewhat disgusted look from the ancient lady sitting behind the counter.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's never been reissued on CD either.

I bought it because I'd heard Bryce Curdy playing "Song For Che" on Radio Clyde the previous evening!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Nuggets ("new" one CD version of "old" 2LP version) going for £5 in Fopp.

Also, Waitrose Movement for a fiver but I resisted.

£5 is the same price as 10 Bounty bars, plus 10p.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bryce Curdy. Dear lord thats a blast from the past.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Are we all aware of the new Fopp shop opening where Purves and Purves used to be then kids?

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

how now is soon?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Well the ads for baristas are now up! :)

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

Jeez! Impulse in ML1 - many a lunch hour also spent in there when I was at High School. Pretty sure they had David Live for £22 around 1994 which was an extrordinary amount of money for 13 year old me to even consider paying then.

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

Cafe! Is this TCR, Bhumibol?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Hamilton representation on ILM is startling.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's academic.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Most recent Sub Pop releases now £6!

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Old Grey Whistle Test Vol 1, 2DVD for a fiver! Nice. Especially when the single disc vols 2&3 are £20 each.
There is some terrible 70s rock nonsense on it, and a highly unwelcome dose of Simply Red, but it's largely very good indeed, with some extraordinary performances from New York Dolls ("mock rock" quips a condescending Bob Harris afterwards), Tim Buckley, SAHB, Emmylou Harris, Bill Withers, Robert Wyatt and PIL (You can't help but agree with Annie Nightingale that Careering is one of the great Whistle Test performances). The shambolic Damned clip is gold.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Fiver? Righto, I'm there lunchtime.

Is this thing on?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Well, it wasn't a fiver in the Reading branch, anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

Nuggets ("new" one CD version of "old" 2LP version) going for £5 in Fopp.

Sold out in Fopp on Cambridge circus AND it's a tenner anyway. I've been 'ad.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

Saw it in reading, fiver, confirmed.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Old Grey Whistle Test Vol 1, 2DVD for a fiver!

Is this the one with Focus and Judee Sill on it?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Edinburgh has the Nuggets CD for a £5 too. Bargain. Got the boxset though so didn't have the joy of buying it sadly.

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Hamilton representation on ILM is startling.

ML1 is Motherwell *Boo Hiss etc*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Edinburgh has the Nuggets CD for a £5 too. Bargain. Got the boxset though so didn't have the joy of buying it sadly.

I bought that box set from Tower in glasgow on import before it got a UK release. Paid about £45-50 i think. Was well worth it though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Presume that was back in the day when Tower was really good. Used to have lots of import stuff. Worth reiterating that it's £5 for the single disc original Nuggets and not for the 4CD boxset which would indeed be the best bargain ever.

Oh and ML9 was the place to be (not)

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Went into the Glasgow Union St Fopp today to look for Nuggets but couldn't see it amongst the new releases. May be sold out...
However, I did chance across their £3 bargain racks and picked up Ivor Cutler's An Elpee and Two Epees and the Chess psych soul and funky grooves comp (Rotary Connection, Solomon Burke - nice). When I get paid on Friday I shall return for the Astrud Gilberto and Avro Part albums.
Think this was just a store clearout, but no harm looking elsewhere. Was separate to their standard £3 section with Outkast, Kylie etc. #

Dadaismus: The Whistle Test dvd has Focus, but not Judee Sill. Think she's on the second one. Happily, the clip is on youtube. Voila:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM3EQVUkMzc

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

man that ivor cutler disc is TREMENDOUS value for money - all his early hits ('gruts', 'eggmeat') and the originals are well scarce

the loss of derek bailey and ivor cutler seems to DEEPEN over time - i think i finally understanding what 'irreplaceable' means

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes, I was very chuffed. Best ever bargain was in the Virgin 3.99 sale earlier in the year. In the Chester store I picked up the James Chance boxset for 3.99. That's worth like 35-40 quid normally!

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah it was ten years ago maybe?,i cant remember exactly when it came out Back when Tower had a fantastic funk and soul section. Picked up some great albums there on the recommendation of Andy who worked on the funk/soul floor. Bought all my funk vinyl from there and FOPP(who licensed it all) up in the west end. Tower more or less died when FOPP opened round the corner. Although it had went downhill before that when they cut back on specialist stuff, which for me was the lifeblood of the store as anything other shops had tended to be far cheaper than Tower.
Missing went downhill around then too.

Does anyone go up the barras now? I havent been up there since about 1998. Used to get some great bootlegs from the barras and there was always plenty of cheap cds/vinyl too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

i went to the barras on my first visit to glasgow abt a year or so ago - pretty dispiriting - lotsa shitty bootleg dvds of the latest big movies, overpriced junk, 1980s bob dylan bootlegs, not real bargains that i cld spot and im normally a gd spotter

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

It used to be great. But I just don't feel the need to go there now just for bootlegs(live) as i can just download them now for free.
I've never bought pirate cds or dvds ever.

Did someone try to sell you ciggies or tobacco every 10 yards?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

not that i recall but it was all a giddy blur

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

Monsieur Le Fopp is hosting "Ron Sexsmith" this afternoon/evening, I think. The "Covent Garden" store. I shall be home by then though.

It was definitely a fiver, Nuggets. I haven't had nobody, me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

i bought this shitty 'nuggets from nuggets' thing, like 20 out of the original 28. i was confused and stuff.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Nuggets from Nuggets" is 20 from the 4CD box, not the orig 28.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Freakish and bizarre.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Is the new/old one the same as disc one of the four disc version?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hmm.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

the new one is the old one is the one from the 70s. the four disc one is for retro bores circa 1998.

mine is the worst of all three worlds.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

so long as its got 'nobody but me' by the human beinz you can't go too far wrong

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

dunno it's all boys with guitars innit.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

I am a retro bore, but I keep trying to get it for free and ending up with EGG ON MY FACE.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

It was definitely a fiver, Nuggets. I haven't had nobody, me.

The chap in the shop said ten, honest!

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

the four disc one is for retro bores circa 1998.

i.e. you can't afford it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

I believe you, Jamie! But you must believe me too!

Nuggets, it's a world unto itself.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Picked up Nuggets today for a fiver.
Also the Associates double pack for a fiver and Fairport's Angel Delight for £3. It's their first sans Thompo - not bad at all.

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

Well, it wasn't a fiver in the Reading branch, anyway.
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), June 28th, 2006 1:20 PM. (link)

It is now. Or, was. Just got one, and I didn't see any others.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

Is the new Tottenham Court Road branch open yet?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's not on the website if it is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 July 2006 06:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

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