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

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I think it's bigger than the one in town

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

ooh, i might go to camden!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

A Brighton branch opened up a couple of months back too, which I can see putting the squeeze on a few of the smaller record stores in town. And on my bank account too, I shouldn't wonder.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I might go to Fopp later on.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

The Virgin Megastore in Reading has closed.

It was 100 metres from Fopp.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

The New Camden Fopp is on my walk to the bus stop in the evening, thus I have spent over £50 there in the last 2 days (on twee DVDs though, so Vinyl Exchange can relax).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully the appalling branch of Virgin in Camden will close now too.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I want them to open one in Dalston.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

(on tweenies DVDs though, so Vinyl Exchange can relax)

Yeah, I saw they had some for £3 the other week, but Fifi and the Flowertots is still full price.

Can you confirm that it is bigger than the Shaftesbury Avenue branch, Jerry?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

It's on three floors, but roughly the same size I would say.

For the record, the DVDs were the no less twee: 'Kiki's delivery service', 'Laputa' and the Boosh box.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

new one in Chiswick High Road too - much needed I should add

pretty small and cramped tho

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

...but better than the spacious Music Zone that took over from MVC down the road.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

I will always love MVC, for selling me the Faust box for £2 (twice), and the Nirvana 'lights out' one for £20.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Maidenhead MVC has also become Music Zone. They have the second Werner Herzog box for a tenner. Hmm.

I got a film called Tarnation from Fopp for a fiver. I am quite pleased with my purchase.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I work just down the road from teh Chiswick Fopp! The Music Zone is shite. I got a load of bargains from MVC before it closed though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Okay: so what's on your fopping shopping list at the moment?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Plenty. But nothing I can actually purchase at Fopp.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Cravings for cheap back-catalogue are a weakness I am often powerless to overcome. That and nowhere else being open round here by the time I finish work.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Currently I have a craving for the Laguna Tunes compilation which I can't even find in Oxford Circus HMV, never mind Fopp.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Laguna Tunes - I don't know what that is, but it makes me think of Slim Gaillard ovootie oroonie.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

It's this one. Admittedly it is an import-only job and came out six years ago, but the original American version (with vocals!) of "Groovin' With Mr Bloe" in particular I've been after for ages, and this is the only CD wot's got it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

This might interest you Marcello: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BestOffer-Various-Laguna-Tunes-CD_W0QQitemZ4818336395QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

ah but "NO INSERTS - JUST CD!" I like to have the sleeve and booklet and things. Thanks anyway...it's the sort of thing which is sometimes apt to turn up unexpectedly in the racks at Reckless for £5.99.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

I bought Odetta Sings Dylan for a fiver. Money well spent.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I recently picked up Kevin Rowland's The Wanderer on CD for 50p and still felt I'd been overcharged!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

taking sides: Camden

2000: Tower & Rhythm Records

2006: Virgin & Fopp

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Cure remasters for £6 a pop. Oh yes. I only got Seventeen Seconds and Faith, but still.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Are those the stingy single-disc versions, or the full-on deluxe jobbies?

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 April 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

It can't be,surely.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 2 April 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

It's the stingy single-disc versions in the Dundee store, don't know about anywhere else.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 2 April 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

hardly worth the effort, then

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Citizen Kane cleanedupdigitalremasterspecialedition!!!! For a fiver!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I am disappointed by the recent £6 development.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

seen in Camden Fopp.

All old Can Remasters £8.
The new Can Remasters £10

you wont find cheaper. *Fact*

― danny boy (danny boy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, tempting to the extreme! Which should I go for? Are the new remasters that much better?

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:35 (twenty years ago)

All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV.

I did find cheaper. *Fact*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:41 (twenty years ago)

A penny for your thought there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

you wont find cheaper (and support smaller record shops)

£7.99? gonna check this out at lunchtime.

― danny boy (danny boy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Do not feed the illiterate troll.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:53 (twenty years ago)

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?

x-post

― 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)

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