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

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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)

foppage

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Ant and Dec "Their Greatest Hits" One Pound. Got it for the kids. Theu kinda like them (a lot) being Geordie lads and all...

Oh, but there are two hits not actually on it. "We're on the ball" being one.

Can you guess which other one?

(Clue: Name a Ant/Dec hit off the top of your head)

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

KRAZY KATZ

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, ooh, let me guess: could it be: "Rip It Up"?
"Tonight I'm Free"?
"Why Me? (Is It Justified)"?
"If I Give You My Number"?
"Eternal Love"?
"Our Radio Rocks"?
"Stuck On U"?
"U Krazy Katz"?
"Perfect"?
"Stepping Stone"?
"Better Watch Out"?
"When I Fall In Love"?
"Shout"?
"Falling"?

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

(OK, I admit, I may not have actually got every one of those titles off the top of my head)

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

All on there!

(They be done have had a lotta hits!)

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

"The Maidenhead Music Zone is going to be a Fopp"

There's a shop in Weymouth which has already been a branch of MVC, a branch of Music Zone and a branch of Fopp so far this year - and it's still only March.

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

[i]"They be done have had a lotta hits!"[/i}

I missed that crucial word "hits" - how are we defining what constitutes a "hit"?

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Also currently on offer for a quid: Shut It! Music From The Sweeney and Amazing Grace by Spiritualized.

I still think the latter too expensive.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Darn! and that's where my other quid went.

thank god I didn't shell out for the 'collector's edition 3 12" singles plus box' version.

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, i thought that was all one album for a (split) second, and so for an even more splitted second I was interested in Spirtualized for the first time in my life

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Outkast's Idlewild is already down to a fiver. I should pick it up eh?

― Stew, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, Stew, £5 is the most you should expect to pay for anything in Fopp these days. Idlewild'll be on the £3 wall racks sooner rather than later.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Today, seen and/or bought!

The Sly/Family Stone remasters = Â£5

Also, Metal Machine Music = Â£5

go deh!

― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, this thread always resurfaces when I have Â£0.00

― braveclub, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Maidenhead Music Zone/Fopp hybrid has now closed completely.

I would like SHUT IT! for a pound.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

ah right, won't go to Maidenhead then.

I'll be visiting the Fopp in Charing cross on Friday. What's good in there at the mo?

― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (Â£5).

I don't know if that's a good deal, but I might get it if it's still there next time I go in.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Um, today is Friday...

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I meant friday next week.

― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

>> The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (Â£5).

It is. Get it. I know I will next week!

I wouldn't bother with their other albums though (Bloodbrothers isn't bad but not great either).

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Exeter's Musiczone is definitely becoming a Fopp; all the POS stuff has changed, the price points, the silly genre sections, etcetera, just not the sign above the door yet.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

:'( Couldn't find Dictators CD in TCR Fopp...

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I might have been hallucinating. I hallucinated it on their PUNK display rack though. Perhaps it was THE DEAD BOYS.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have checked though and you can get it for very cheap off the internet if you don't mind waiting for it to come from the colonies.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Colonel PoOTM

― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

They do have Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children CD for a fiver.

Maybe it was on the New York/London wall by the vinyl - there was an empty shelf near Ramones/NY Dolls - could have been there.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not remotely in the same league as "Go Girl Crazy" however (or even "Young, Loud and Snotty")

― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

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