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

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Monsieur Fopp has redesigned his shops in London and Reading. They are better, I have to say.

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

There was a set of the complete works of Bob Dylan - 40 CDs - on sale in HMV last week for £75. I purchased a copy in order to try to educate myself more fully in the art of Bob Dylanism. Was this money wisely spent?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

You tell us

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wouldn't know, I haven't managed to listen to all 40 CDs as yet.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Was this a for real? or one of their "Get in the queue first and get one, five only from HMV Oxford Street" offers?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well I wouldn't have thought so! (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

The latter. I stopped off on my way to work. There didn't seem much in the way of a queue.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

ach, the number of these I was never "going in to work" early enough for, when I worked in EC1.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

It sounds like an excellent bargain to me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Fopp have Twin Peaks Series 1 for £15.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have never been in Fopp.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

You should go, one day. It is not far from your bus route, which will be bendy-only as from Friday, I see. Other than that, you are not missing much. I only went because I found £20 on Sunday and thought it might disappear in a puff of smoke if I didn't spend it quickly. I regret having spent it though. The digipak trays are loose on the Twin peaks set, which annoys me, and Lou Reed NYC Man is at least half rubbish.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

Loose digipak trays? The boycott starts HERE!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I got that NYC man set, and realise now I didn't actually need it, after having it sat here unplayed for three months. Along with that Neil Young "Decade" set and the Prince/Symbol "Emancipation" thingy.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have had loose digipak trays before and they are impossible to stick back on. This may be the root of the problem in the first place. The reason I am am a bit miffed is because I like to watch things and then sell them mint condition, innit, preferably for more than I paid. Now, that option is closed to me.

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

Has the "New Answers" Page died?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

ach, no, it's just VERY quiet. half term, I guess.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

i got 'the godfather' trilogy box in sainsburys for £15.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cor!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

I borrowed that Twin Peaks set off someone in anticipation of purchasing a DVD player and now I finally have a DVD player so I went to watch it and in the intervening time the trays have come loose!

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

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

You can hardly be blamed, Tim. It is obvioulsy poorly designed packaging. Not that this will get you off the hook, mind.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think i'll have to take a trip to Cockburn or Rose St for a gander at the bargains.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

my sopranos trays are a bit rub like that. would a dollop of glue do it?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Why don't you give it a go, and let me know how well it works before I return these to the lawyer who owns them?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

er, ok.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have given it a go with a previous digipak tray disaster. Glue was no help at all, because the surface area of the tray that actually makes contact with the cardboard is very small and fiddly. All that happens is your tray gets semgged up with glue.

Of course, I might just be a big spazz.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

i think i would fail in a similar way.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Justin Timberlake's Justified, Outkast's Speakerboxx/Love Below and R Kelly's Happy People... all £3 at the Cockburn Street Fopp in Edinburgh... (!) I've been considering stocking up to give to people for gifts but none of my friends like anything except the Outkast.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's a new FOPP in Camden too

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

whereabouts?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

not that i'd, you know, go to camden.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

Just by the lock, next to Vinyl Exchange.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think it's bigger than the one in town

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

ooh, i might go to camden!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

A Brighton branch opened up a couple of months back too, which I can see putting the squeeze on a few of the smaller record stores in town. And on my bank account too, I shouldn't wonder.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

I might go to Fopp later on.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

The Virgin Megastore in Reading has closed.

It was 100 metres from Fopp.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

The New Camden Fopp is on my walk to the bus stop in the evening, thus I have spent over £50 there in the last 2 days (on twee DVDs though, so Vinyl Exchange can relax).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hopefully the appalling branch of Virgin in Camden will close now too.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

I want them to open one in Dalston.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

(on tweenies DVDs though, so Vinyl Exchange can relax)

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?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's on three floors, but roughly the same size I would say.

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

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

new one in Chiswick High Road too - much needed I should add

pretty small and cramped tho

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

...but better than the spacious Music Zone that took over from MVC down the road.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

I will always love MVC, for selling me the Faust box for £2 (twice), and the Nirvana 'lights out' one for £20.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Maidenhead MVC has also become Music Zone. They have the second Werner Herzog box for a tenner. Hmm.

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

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

I work just down the road from teh Chiswick Fopp! The Music Zone is shite. I got a load of bargains from MVC before it closed though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

Okay: so what's on your fopping shopping list at the moment?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

Plenty. But nothing I can actually purchase at Fopp.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cravings for cheap back-catalogue are a weakness I am often powerless to overcome. That and nowhere else being open round here by the time I finish work.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

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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

2 months pass...

£30 in fopp this afternoon, could easily have been twice that - the current dvd selection matches my tastes well

unthanks - bairns (cd) £3
the thing (dvd 2011) £3
akira (dvd) £5
la belle et la bete (bfi dvd) £5
innocents (bfi dvd) £5
bed 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

4 weeks pass...

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

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