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

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There were three Meek boxes on Saturday morning on Tottenham Court Road, by the tills, in the piles of cheapo stuff. I suppose they all went to people like me, who spotted them after paying for something else. On the other hand, they might have a warehouse full of them.

They have a lot of nice jazz compilations going for three quid, as lonmg as you don't mind them being called Legends of Acid Jazz or Heroes of the Hammond.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the OGWT DVD took a while to go to £5 when it was mentioned upthread.

Guess I'll have to keep walking over to the further end of town, lunchtimes...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I asked today, they reckoned they had a buy in of around 1,000 and they all gorn now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

i am envious of mr millers joe meek box set, yes, it has been on my amazon wishlist since picking up that £3 comp in hmv basement last year. i wonder if the further outposts, like chiswick, still have them...

or i could stick to buying 10p cd singles off ebay...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I've gotta have that Joe Meek box!

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, got to have the joe meek too though didn't spot it in Edinburgh this afternoon. They did have Spiderman and Spiderman 2 double DVD's for £3 each though. Not that I bought those, got a Fania label sampler for £3 instead.

― mms (mms), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I feel quite guilty about having one now.

Best of Syd Barrett 3.97 in Music Zone. Dafty here paid much more.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

That the one with "Bob Dylan Blues"?

Good old Napster of olden times, I say.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Most of the Slayer back catalog is £5 now.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that one.

Who has the Rolling Stones "classic 60s recordings" cheapest? 7.97 is pushing it a bit at Music Zone.

I may venture into Reading tomorrow morning, with my daughter.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Warning: absolutely not Fopp at all... but as this is sort of the bargain thread, certain folks might want to note that Amazon currently have Basil Kirchin's Abstractions of the Industrial North on vinyl for £2.96. Also, Davey Graham's Midnight Man on CD for £3.96. Dunno what else, got cheesed off with looking. Anyone know what that Graham disc is like?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also this

...and all I went there for was a field guide to mushrooms.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Death Row Records Greatest Hits Vols 1 & 2 (4 CDs) for a fiver in Reading. I went looking for Rolling Stones &0s albums cheap, but they were not cheap. but Hot Rocks 1 & 2 were, so I go those instead. The remastering is very good indeed, I may need to upgrade my others.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

CCR - Born On the Bayou (£3)

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I have been to Fopp today for the first time since (it appears from the above) August 24th. As I had not been for so long, I allowed myself the illicit thrill of buying a CD for ten pounds - that double CD of pirate songs, Rogue's Gallery.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Fopp in Chiswick was CLOSED on Saturday. No signs or other explanation. Anyone know what gives?

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

ooh!

Better check the Reading one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I see the TCR branch is open till 10 at night weekdays.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Fopp in Chiswick was CLOSED on Saturday. No signs or other explanation. Anyone know what gives?

a day in mourning/celebration for Tower Records perhaps ?

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Reading Fopp open as usual...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I got a DJ Shadow Private Press thing in a cardboard sleeve with an extra disc which contains ten minutes or so of live shenanigans and there is also an extra track. It cost £5. I was quite pleased. Monsieur Le Fopp seemed to have a lot of good stuff in his TCR emporium yesterday. They now have sections like "Brit Glam".

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

what is the extra track?

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

i almost got 'station to station' for a fiver yesterday, but felt it wasn't enough.

but i could have got last year's time out film guide for a tenner, which i will do, at some point.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

as advied over on the other thread

Output is gone...

- most of the Output Recordings catalogue is now a £3 special !

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Three of the early Flaming Lips albums are £3 at the mo.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

gravediggaz -- 6ft deep

£3 and a bargain!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ghost of a Chance (Original Version) I think, Benrrique. An "original version" of one of the album tracks anyway. I can't remember the title (unless I have remembered it).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Fopp expands....

FOPP BUY 67 MUSIC ZONE STORES
Well, a bit of good news from the world of music retail. Glasgow based Fopp yesterday announced it was buying 67 of the stores formerly owned by its rival Music Zone, making them, over night, the biggest independent music retailer in the UK.

As previously reported, Music Zone went into administration earlier this year, and formally closed down the whole of its 100+ chain on 25 Jan after a buyer for the company could not be found. Fopp will now take on 67 of Music Zone's stores, saving some 775 jobs that had been lost when Music Zone ceased trading. The deal sees Fopp triple the size of its UK wide empire, going from 35 stores to over 100.

Confirming the deal, Music Zone's administrator, Bill Dawson of Deloitte, told reporters: "We are pleased with the disposal to Fopp, and wish them every success in the future. This represents a much better outcome for creditors and other stakeholders than a piecemeal disposal".

source:
http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/daily/index.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

In ways it sounds like Fopp is finding the same space as Second Spin (and, regrettably, its parent company TWE) has staked out over here -- music retailing with a heavy but not universal emphasis on secondhand sales. It seems the only practical way for such chains to function.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

So does that mean FOPP will move into the old Tower records store in Glasgow as Music Zone was in there?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Herald:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1171277.0.0.php
It is understood that only one of Music Zone's seven Scottish stores will stay open - the shop in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Fopp's strategy would be to cherry pick the 67 stores that didn't overlap with their existing store portfolio. The other Music Zone stores being in locations where FOPP already has a presence.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Music Zone had 104 stores, Fopp have bought 67 [37 stores not bought]

Fopp previously had 35 stores + 67 acquired Music Zone store locations = 102 stores

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt they have bought the one in Maidenhead.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon they are likely to have bought the Maidenhead store, do the maths any Music Zone shop in a town/city location of a Fopp unlikely to to be included in 67 acquistion.

Fopp Shops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fopp_%28retailer%29

if Fopp can have shops in smaller towns such as Andover, Bedford, Horsham why not Maidenhead?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

correction, Fopp 10 in Scotland, 35 in England and one in Wales = 46 existing stores

46 + 67 = 113 stores

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Music Zone Store locator
http://www.musiczone.co.uk/store_locator.asp

If there isn't a Fopp Shop already there = likely to become a Fopp

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Martian probably OTM, but I hope they make an exception for Chiswick, where the Fopp store is tiny and way too cramped for comfortable browsing and Music Zone had spacious premises just down the Road. They could easily give up the smaller shop and relocate to the larger one.

I think Fopp have their admin offices above the Chiswick branch. Not sure if that makes it more or less likely that they will relocate.

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

(btw the explanation for the unexpected Fopp closure I posted about on October 9th was that the staff couldn't get the security shutters to 'unlock' that morning! They were back in business within a few hours, I was later told)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

within the space of 13 months: 41 MVC Stores rebranded Music Zone now some of these will become Fopp shops

= more work for the Sign Makers !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm located in Winchester at ahe moment.

There's a very shut MVC here.

Guess it's not going to be a Fopp in the next 3 days.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

strange no Music Zone or Fopp in either Winchester or Basingstoke - maybe Fopp will eventually expand into these towns?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, do the maths, PJM. Sheesh. Have you done the maths yet? Don't forget to show your working.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Here is the maths:

Maidenhead = small town, hip motherfucker population = 1 (me)

Hang on, I'm forgetting to factor in DVD sales.

Where's my board rubber?

Maidenhead = small town, DVD buying population = several million, including Rolf Harris and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

QED. I shall start camping out now.

They are going to get so sick of me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Two Fopps in Southampton? Seems mad.

The main reason I didn't think they would come is because there is already a Fopp in Reading, which is "just down the road".

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Two Fopps in Southampton and NONE WHATSOEVER in South London - are they mad?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

please please please please please please please please exeter please please please

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't worked out why they opened a Fopp in Glenrothes.

― treefell (treefell), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

missionary work.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Maidenhead Music Zone is going to be a Fopp, there is a piece of paper up in the window to that effect. I am urged to "bear with them" in the meantime.

That bird with the dyed red hair in the TCR shop is a bit arsey when you take stuff back under the popular "suck it and see" policy.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

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