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

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.

I can still take NYC Man back, being within my Sucker And See period.

What am I to DO? It'll look like I've abused the lend something chronic.

Of course, I might just be a big spazz.

It was 100 metres from Fopp.

Yeah, I saw they had some for £3 the other week, but Fifi and the Flowertots is still full price.

Can you confirm that it is bigger than the Shaftesbury Avenue branch, Jerry?

For the record, the DVDs were the no less twee: 'Kiki's delivery service', 'Laputa' and the Boosh box.

pretty small and cramped tho

I got a film called Tarnation from Fopp for a fiver. I am quite pleased with my purchase.

Lots of Shameless and Arrow DVDs for £3 and a few of the excellent Arrow Blu-Rays for £6 in the Halloween sale.

Also lots of BFI DVDs and Blu-Rays cheaper than on Amazon

oh cool - those arrow blu-ray packages are great, i'll need to nip down to fopp and see if i can pick up a few i haven't already snagged

Back to the original statement..

I have to say, that "Close to the noise floor" looks like an excellent compilation, and eBay has it for £22 or thereabouts, but I have one massive backlog, so if I saw it in fopp for a tenner, then yeah. Otherwise, I can wait..

Was gonna say (well, I did but it didn't save)

I did make it to Fopp in Covgrdn last week, drove right in and parked nearby (just to show I still got it)..

I got the bfi remaster of Psychomania, you may have seen the thread revive recently (UNDEAD THREAD!! .. ahem)

Anyhow, the price ticket was "£12, or two for £25". How does that work?

Shin Godzilla (2016 Japanese reboot) on DVD for a fiver (2 DVDs, Japanese and English versions, not sure how different they are beyond the audio)

Lady Snowblood for £6, 2 films in both DVD and Blu-ray formats.

(Saved me about 4 quid over Amazon prices)

End of a landmark

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-47130390

Saved

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-47177001

Anyone clocked if the Oxford branch is open/has been saved?

(Oh, it's still closed).

Is something happening to Fopp/HMV? I've been in recently twice and there was like 5 new releases they didn't have which are definitely out now. Like Arrow, Second Run, 88 Films stuff that they usually get. Have some labels said theyre not really benefitting from stores anymore. Feels ominous to me.

Yes

I should have mentioned I've heard about the many store closures but it seems like there might be extra troubles when they seem to not be getting some new releases you could normally rely on.

The store closures are due to massive financial troubles. Lack of money, credit and staff can affect a shop's ability to order new stock.

They weren't getting any new stock while they were between owners. And now I think their new owner is generally more invested in vinyl than blu-ray or DVD or CD. Shame they never seem to have sales on Indicator product, or Eureka/MOC.

Westfield branch of HMV has been left exactly as it was when it closed the day before HMV went into administration. All the stock is still sitting there on the shop floor and there are screens still on at the back, some playing videos. So weird. It’s possible the new owners are negotiating with the landlord so they can reopen the branch at some point, but dudes: mind that electricity bill.

I walked past the Oxford Street HMV yesterday, no stock in the shop.

HMV Westfield has reopened as of today.

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/17734057.fears-for-fopp-on-byres-road-after-plans-submitted/

Shame they never seem to have sales on Indicator product, or Eureka/MOC.

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, March 30, 2019 10:30 PM

There's still a wall of Indicator but they seem to be completely finished with Eureka. Which is a shame because I think Eureka are doing all the best stuff these days.

first visit in 18 months and couldn't find anything to buy

they had the kurosawa samurai box for 50 quid and were selling the individual films for 8 each. which is like the opposite of a bargain.

and very few cheap cds any more. (although i didn't go upstairs or down)

The prices in Fopp are generally good but why is there occasionally things costing way more than they would be in other shops? There's a bunch of Cherry Red/Esoteric reissues that are £12 more than the standard price.