Troubleman soundtrack by Marvin Gaye, only £3 the other day, along with a bunch of other Gaye albums.
― Neil S, Monday, 22 February 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got Meat Puppets I/II/Up on The Sun/Huevos/Monsters and also Big Star In Space and Grinderman for £3 each.
I just picked up a great wodge of the Puppets stuff and thought I had got Mirage instead of Monsters, but no, it's Monsters. I don't think Mirage was there - a shame, as I could do with hearing Confusion Fog again. I used to have II/UOTS/Mirage on vinyl years ago - will be fun hearing some of this stuff again.
― Dr.C, Monday, 22 February 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Was this the Covent Garden Fopp? I want those Meat Puppets records...
― Neil S, Monday, 22 February 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yep.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 22 February 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes it was. I think I got the last copies of I/II - hopefully they'll have more somewhere. There were loads of UOTS/Monsters/Huevos and the Classic Puppets comp.
― Dr.C, Monday, 22 February 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I got the only copy of Mirage I could see (in the new £3 racks upstairs), what a weird attempt to go mainstream that album was. Also look out for The Host on DVD (£1!).
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Monday, 22 February 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Think I might be popping along there this week then. I find I'm unable to buy single CDs, because it always seems somehow pointless, so I didn't buy that Marvin Gaye one the other day.
― Neil S, Monday, 22 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
plenty of meat puppets I and II in leicester square / covent garden / seven dials / whatever last night, albeit at £5. ground floor, middle, top shelf.
― koogs, Friday, 26 February 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn you folks and your cheap Meat Pups!
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 26 February 2010 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I had II already, but I picked up the S/T, Mirage, Up On The Sun & Huevos for a fiver a piece.
I am not willing to admit quite how much I've spent on the Zappa stuff in the last couple of weeks. Suffice to say, a lot.
― krakow, Friday, 26 February 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
YEAAAAAAAAH
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 26 February 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
That's the sound of Fopp'a managers when they see me walking in.
― krakow, Friday, 26 February 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I got some THROBBING GRISTLE and ROXY MUSIC albums for £3 each.
― PJ Miller, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
What Throbbing Gristle?
― krakow, Sunday, 7 March 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember getting 20 jazzfunk for that, couple years ago.
― Mark G, Monday, 8 March 2010 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
£3 purchases at cambridge fopp last week:- scritti cupid and psyche 85- zero martin hannett story- magazing correct use of soap- pet shop boys actually- grizzly man dvd- encounters at edge of world (£4)
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Monday, 8 March 2010 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Plenty Roxy/BF solo too
― PaulTMA, Monday, 8 March 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
My purchases last week, all £3;Roxy Music - SirenKenny Dope / Karizma mix 2xCDThe Complete Robert JohnsonYeah Yeah Yeah's Fever To TellFire Walk With Me DVDBlack Narcissus DVD
― mmmm, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Throbbing Gristle live recordings - Misson of Dead Souls and Vols 2 & 3 of Throbbing Gristle Live.
― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Vols 2 & 3 of Throbbing Gristle Live
You mean the slipcased box that came out on Mute a few years ago? I thought that was only available as a box, not as individual CDs.
― anagram, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Lots of Blue Note CDs for £3 (Cambridge Fopp). Picked up a couple of Donald Byrds.
― seandalai, Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
A number of shorter Hemingway books for £2 in Glasgow Union Street, along with Lawrence's "Women In Love".
― krakow, Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if the Throbbing Gristle was ever a box, but it is The Grey Area of Mute 1993. (I didn't get very far when I tried actually listening to it.)
Kenneth Anger Magick Lantern Cycle 2XDVD £12 (from the "this is the gay section, Eddie" section).
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Located the 2nd Roxy Music album for £3, well stoked, as it's an absolute winner. I'd previously only managed to find the later ones.
― krakow, Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
central glasgow branch buys:
cds:search for the new land - lee morgan £3 - early shorter/hancock pairing, lee's most 'adventurous' 60s alb
money jungle - ellington/mingus/roach £3 - playing it right now, always enjoy how monkian/modern the duke sounds on this sesh, and mingus is amazing throughout
our man in paris - dexter gordon £3 - the one w/ bud powell on it
books:thurston moore and byron coley's no-wave nyc bk - £3
dvds:dbl disc of rebel w/out a cause - £3synecdoche, new york - £4 (can't tell if the "smash-hit comedy of the year!" blurb on the front is ironic or not)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
thurston moore and byron coley's no-wave nyc bk - £3
Still been >£10 South of the border up to last week, been waiting for this to drop in price.
― Diamanti Gallas (aldo), Friday, 19 March 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
its 5 in hmv right now
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 19 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Glasgow Byres Road has Beach Boys DVDs Endless Harmony (French issue, but not dubbed) and Nashville Sounds (worth a laugh if you're a diehard) - both £3.
Annoyingly, the three or so Bryan Ferry Remasters I don't have are all remain full price in the Union St. branch, unlike the rest.
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 20 March 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i got the moore/coley book in HMV on Oxford St for £4 today. And also Renegade by Mark E Smith for £2 from one of those shit always CLOSING DOWN EVERYTHING MUST GO places
― Dwight Yorke, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
The surfeit of £3 Blue Note CDs drives me crazy everytime I go in there.
― You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
sunday's £3 haul:
miles davis - milestones (plus the musings of miles and blue moods)miles davis - kind of blue (plus ascenseur pour lechafaud + somethin' else)charles mingus - the complete town hall concertart blakey - moanin' (plus orgy in rhythm)
9 jazz albums for £12. result.
― m the g, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Milestones is great. Coltrane is on fire on that album. I picked up Wayne Shorter's The Soothsayer and Art Blakey's A Night In Tunisia the other day. £3 each. They had The House That Trane Built, that glossy book on Impulse Records for £4 too, which I may pick up. Now if only Fopp were to do a £3 sale on Impulse stuff, that would make me inordinately happy.
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
indeed it is. tbh, the musings of miles/blue moods are relatively bland. but still, those 3-in-1 albums are a pretty great deal.
saw that trane book, was sorely tempted. not that I'll have time to read it, mind...
if fopp did a £3 impulse sale I would be very happy but very poor.
― m the g, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I think they had a load of Impulse stuff for £5 last time I was in the Covent Garden one.
― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Box set of the first five Monkees albums, £13 or thereabouts...
― Mark G, Friday, 24 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
todays treat.
donovan reissued catalogue on cd with tons of extra tracks etc.
sunshine superman/mellow yellow/the hurdy gurdy man/a gift from a flower to a garden(never even seen this on cd before !)/barabajagal
£3 each.
upon purchasing : 'you're not the only person today to have bought this lot'
― mark e, Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, bought "A Gift to a Flower...", which is wonderful and ludicrous in equal measures
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel a £3 Blue Note/Impulse/Prestige splurge coming on.
― MyFatherWillGuideMeUpARopeToYourMum (MaresNest), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah .. i too thought that when i went in yesterday.they just all look so tempting at that price.
― mark e, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but there's a new FOPP in London... yes that's right, a new record (/dvd/book) shop
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
... Gower Street... inside Waterstones
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
So, is that new Fopp any good?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's okay, they had a surprising amount of stuff the main one didn't. but it's much smaller!
― bitchmaid (sic), Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, while I'm here:
"How not to run a nightclub" Peter Hook, £3 (the hardback)
"Soul to Soul" CD&DVD, basically: Soul people go to Ghana, 1971 or thereabouts (Ike&Tina, WPickett, Staplesingers, etc), £3
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
New Fopp last week - Superpitcher -Kilimanjiro (in the Rock and Pop section)
― mmmm, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the fopps in glasgow really seem to have gone downhill in recent months, in terms of 'new' bargains (and especially so w dvds) - though i did pick up some great comics-related bks at bargain prices recently (the art of harvey kurtzman for three quid!)
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Buying the first 3 expanded reissues for £9 recently, and the deluxe R.E.M. for £9, The Monkees' 'Head' for £3, The 3 expanded 70s Fleetwood Mac big-sellers for £5 each - pretty good I'd say. At least 4 Donovan reissues are all going for £3 each.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I meant to say, first 3 Bee Gees reissues for a total of £9. All gone now though, I think.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
And deluxed R.E.M.s for £3 each.... I'm half out of bed
lol