**Cymbal Crash**
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
This is a sign from God.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 30 July 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 July 2006 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link
It's massive!
Things of note:
They had new The WHO 12" by the window, in direct sunlight. They were warm to the touch. I expect them to have melted by the end of the week. Anything on the aisle ends by the window is in direct afternoon sunlight. They hadn't thought of that.
The Gram parsons Complete Reprise Sessions box set is £10 more expensive on TCR than on Shaftesbury Avenue. Worth the ten minute walk, I'd say.
They have some lovely lovely stuff from Ace going cheapish, such as the Deep Soul Treasures series, and some funk compilations. This is stuff that I used to pay 2775 pesetas for in Spain, which felt like an awful lot of money. Then they went up to 3200 pesetas and I could no longer afford them. I think they are still my favourite CDs, and I recommend them to anyone who hasn't got them.
They have the Westbound Funkadelic reissues for a fiver each. I would like them.
It looks like they have some nice things on vinyl.
You can walk right through the shop and come out the other side. I like that in a shop.
They have bucked the trend by giving greater prominence to CDs than DVDs near the entrance. Perhaps it is because of the sunlight problem, although I doubt it.
There is not much room in the aisles.
It is not as far up TCR as I thought. It could justifiably be considered to be on my way home.
It is much better than their horrible website.
If I were them, I would have a "board guy" outside Virgin, to speed up the inevitable decline of said Megastore.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I wonder if the Glasgow FOPP has them for £5. Hopefully someone can report back on that next time they're in.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I bought a copy of Nuggets for my friend. It was £10 in the £5 section but £5 elsewhere which was a little odd.
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I have mixed feelings about the new TCR FOPP. One on hand, I love how its giving the big two fingers to said sad Megastore, a sort of "Look, this is how its done, losers!", yet I kind of miss how four or five years ago, that solitary store @ Cambridge Circus was the best kept secret in town.
Maybe I'm worried that once it does see off Virgin and the increasingly pathetic HMV, it'll abandon "stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap" and adopt the "stack 'em high and sell 'em expensive" policy of those stores.
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I found it hard to find the new releases section!
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link
A friend of mine works there and he admitted that some of the stock is in odd places because they didn't know where else to put it, while on other occasions things had been classified oddly.
Still, that's half the fun.
PS I'm quite taken with the MVE basement!
― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Irmin Schmidt - Soundtracks 3xCD £7 - bargain? Or the krautrock equivalent of Prince's Emancipation?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doi Doing! (Dada), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Amazing Grace is £7 in glasgow.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
got Nuggets for a fiver (am not convinced of its greatness, was expecting Psychedelia and got a lot of people trying to be the Beatles, Stones or Dylan). also bought Leonard Cohen (one of his cds anyway).
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link
not always, no. and the thing they were trying to be was merseybeat era beatles. (track i'm thinking of is Knickerbockers : 'Lies')
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― bham (bham), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
WTF??
We could have a TCR Fopp FAP!
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Edinburgh Fopp no longer serves beer. It was a rubbish idea.
― alext (alext), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― dh (djh), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Ooh! I want this. OK I know where I'm going tomorrow lunchtime.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
New Rotary Connection: Hey Love (vinyl)Mia Doi Todd: ManzanitaBeth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of SeasonYves Montand: Car J T'aimeLa Jetée/Sans Soleil (dvd)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?
filed under £5. but dance too i thnk.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I still haven't really touched on the classical and jazz sections.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link
i got der knife too!
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I was only in Fopp for about 10 mins though cos I had to go to the post office & bank first and used up most of my lunch hour doing that. I did see a whole load of other great albums for a fiver though, such as Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance & Overkill by Motorhead.
Metalheads may also be interested in Black Metal by Venom for £1!!!! Pity I just bought the fucking thing from Sister Ray for £5.99, dammit.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Also the Taxi comp on Pressure Sounds for £3, and that Waylon Jennings twofer fer three too.
Plus a dodgy-as-hell Toby Keith LP for a fiver, but you don't want to know about that.
(The Horace Andy CD which they have tons of for £1, "You Are My Angel", ia a real winner by the way, one of his very best. Also aces is the Joe Gibbs comp called "The Reggae Train" and that's only £3. (The latter is an LP which I strongly suspect Mark E Smith of owning: within a couple of years of its release The Fall had covered "People Grudgeful" and "Kimble". What a great record.) I don't have that Blak Twang LP and don't much fancy it.)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link