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All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV.

holy fuck i'm there.

i reckon amazon ain't much more expensive though.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:56 (twenty years ago)

the Fopp in Covent Garden/Seven Dials seems to have gone downhill in the last six months - nothing there you won't find for the same price (or cheaper, as Marcello points out) in HMV

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:03 (twenty years ago)

All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV

That means they'll be £4.99 in a month or two

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:05 (twenty years ago)

The Brighton one has gone a bit more expensive too in the last few months. I'd assumed that this was cos their local rival in the cheapo market (Essential Music) had shut down after thriving until Fopp moved into town (it's nice to think that Fopp forces HMV etc to close, but more than likely it's local independent places that suffer worst). But maybe it's a national pricing thing instead then?

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― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

dada -- y'think? they non-remasters *never* came beneath a tenner.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:15 (twenty years ago)

Essential Music gone? Jesus...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:17 (twenty years ago)

dada -- y'think? they non-remasters *never* came beneath a tenner

And they never got down to £7.99 either

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, how far did you get with the Bob Dylan box, as mentioned above?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Currently I am stuck at a Self Portrait impasse.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Quite like that one. Didn't like the "Basement Tapes" so much. I'm jolly bonkers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Not so bonkers, "Self Portrait" is one of the only Dylan albums I've ever listened to with any enjoyment

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Self Portrait is all right, but New Morning is a bit of a drag. Not looking forward to the Mark Knopfler Years either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:40 (twenty years ago)

The album that started this thread, Nick Drake whatever it's called, is now £6 in Fopp. Not quite a fiver, but low enough to keep us all on tenterhooks.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 12 June 2006 07:45 (twenty years ago)

I dealt at £7. Noel would have consoled.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:12 (twenty years ago)

You...were...one...ounce...short...of...self...belief.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

fopp have a great angle though, you always think your getting a bargain when 75% of the time you arent

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

i bought the new JPod thing by douglas coupland there the other day for £9 quid only to see it cheaper in borders about 100m down the road. so yes.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, in that respect, yes.

But also, you end up buying stuff you'd never consider otherwwise, as it's cheap enough to take a punt, and nine times out of ten it's inessential.

But, I did play those Kevin Ayers albums a fair bit. So, yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Fopp are the Tescos of music.

It was never like this in the early days when they were just a stall in the Savoy Centre in Glasgow (when they were still called A-One Sounds) and the owner used to enthuse endlessly about Arthur Blythe and George Russell.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Suck It And See gets the thumbs up though - I don't think anywhere else will give you your money back if your punt does turn out to be inessential, no questions asked.

Well, one question asked, usually.

Was that the place with a Tupperware box for the fanzine money?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, if Virgin Megastores wish to retain my custom, they would do well NOT to ask me that bloody question "Did you find everything you were looking for?" at the till. "No, actually I was looking for Tacky Souvenirs Of Pre-Revolutionary America by Culturcide but failed to find it sandwiched between your generous quantity of discounted Cult and Culture Club CDs." "??????"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:53 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, the Reading branch is closed for a 'major refit', i.e. will have been closed 6 months when it reopens.

I remember when the old megastore closed in London, similarly, and from being a 'postpunk den' into the streamlined sales point it is now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 09:04 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah marcello, got asked that selfsame quest in the megabore a few weeks ago - i wanted to say "no becos yr selection of noise and free jazz is poxy to the max" but didn't cos a) it is not retail slave's fault and b) i had just found a musica transonic alb on PSF for £3.99 in their sale so was reasonably 'happy'

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

tescos is the tescos of music.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

tescos is the tescos of tescos

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

wimbledon is wimbledon and that's what makes it wimbledon

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

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 (danny boy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

So Fopp are the Starbucks of music then (that'll be that furniture shop that's been closing down for the last six months then).

I don't suppose that record stall round the back of Goodge Street will be there much longer after it's opened.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Everyone sells CDs cheaply these days

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

Rough Trade shop to thread.

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

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.

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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 (twenty years ago)

Ray's Jazz Shop to thread.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

Er, Selectadisc?

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

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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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

... 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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Oh I know that Marcello, but slippery slope innit?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

"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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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