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

The Lex's work is done.

A band I hadn't heard, not like I used to like them and ILM made me throw their albums in a skip or sumthin'

Well I never saw you as someone who would chuck out cd's just because ILM hated them.

The descriptions made them sound vile - from both sides of the debate

I still think they are vile, however, I now like them. If that makes sense. Any logical description of them sounds like something that would make me want to kill kittens. But, somehow, it works, and I have been sucked in.

I like the early stuff, the last couple i wasnt so keen on and the newest one I've only heard once.

The Elektra thing was there on Saturday. I would phone or something before making a special journey.

Well, as it turns out I'll be passing there anyway, so I'll have a look-in, thanks anyway.

Krakow posted this on the king crimson thread, FOPP in glasgow have a big prog rock display with all the king crimson cds for a fiver. I finally picked up Discipline.

Also FOPP in Glasgow has Meters cds for a fiver. I have them on vinyl (bought from fopp in the late 90s up the west end of glasgow, back when fopp licensed albums to represson vinyl) but if you dont have Meters albums then get these!

I'm still waiting on the Miles Davis Cellar Door Sessions box to turn up. I know that it was offered by one of the bulk-selling wholesalers for cheap a couple of months ago and expected it to appear in Fopp before too long, but so far no word...

Which Meters? I got Rejuvenation on vinyl as part of the Virgin clearout (along with a bunch of James Brown, Lyn Collins, Gil Scott Heron, Donny Hathaway etc) a while back, but I'd love some of the earlier ones. Wish I'd snapped up all the Fopp soul and jazz vinyl in the late 90s. I got a few, but my schoolboy/student budget and lack of knowledge meant I must have missed some amazing stuff at bargain prices. Sigh.

theres earlier and later ones. Look in the meters section on the racks.

I got a lof of the fopp funk vinyl back then. Tower sold them too

Lot

Neither Fopp nor music, but HMV in Oxford had season one of The A Team for a fiver. I managed to resist.

thats the best one as Amy is in it.

Hey guys, loadsa £3-£4 metal in the London branch! Emperor! Nachtmysium! Um...Dimmu Borgir! Er...Iced Earth! Lotsa Rev-Ola reissues too, all cheap cheap cheap! I have to stay out of this place.

Life is for living and money is for spending.

'Horizons Touched - The Music of ECM' for £10 yesterday out of Glasgow Union Street. Amazing. A super fancy Granta coffee table beauty in a hefty black slipcase. I love me some ECM...

Going to listen to Arvo Pärt's Lamentate at soul-expanding volume in honour...

Guys, the "Forever Changing" Deluxe box is in TCR, £40.

And the 3CD "Tell Tale Signs" Dylan deluxe is in also, £35.

They had quite a few of each tonight, but you know how these go...

They wouldn't happen to be doing Beatles boxes at a similar price would they?

The single CDs were about a pound more than other places.

New Wire Primers book for £10, a couple of quid cheaper than elsewhere (even with a subscriber discount it's £11 from the Wire themselves).

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/the_wire/shop/primer-cover001.jpg

Simon Reynolds' Totally Wired for £2!!! They've got stacks of the paperback original in the Glasgow Byre's Road branch, and presumably elsewhere.

Better still, I just picked up Michael Bracewell's Remake Remodel for £3! It's a beautiful Faber hardback, with gorgeous photo plates. They had a stack of 'em in Glasgow Union Street branch.

Loads of Ballard and David Peace for £2 just now too.

Sly and the Family Stone, "Greatest Hits" remaster, £3, Glasgow Fopp.

And Exeter, so probably everywhere.

Sly and the Family Stone, "Greatest Hits" remaster, £3, Glasgow Fopp.

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Head in Bristol are doing this along with a few of the other remastered editions (fresh, and the bands debut i think) for £1.99 each, i will probably succumb by end of the week.

Three lesser spotted Fall albums for £3 each in Glasgow Union Street:

'Interim' (Live + Rehearsals from 2004)
'Live From The Vaults - Los Angeles 1979'
'Live From The Vaults - Oldham 1978'

All on Hip Priest

Yeah, I got one of those a while back. It had "Session Musician", a funny one, they only played it twice ever and never recorded it. One of his 'character' pieces a'la "Solicitor in Studio"

Not sure if they'll be any good, but you don't see them about much, so I jumped on it.

Got this lot for £3 each in Byres Road, Glasgow:

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (!)
Miles Davis - Miles In The Sky, Filles De Kilimanjaro, Water Babies
Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
Robert Wyatt - End of an Ear
Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Louis Armstrong - Best of the Hot 5 & 8 Recordings (decent Columbia master - not one of those crappy out of copyright jobs)

Slade in Flame (deluxe DVD + CD pack)
Robert Wyatt live Theatre Royal

Both £3 each. Fopp Mcr

Wow Slade in Flame want want want.

Sandy Denny's "Like An Old Fashioned Waltz" for £3.

One other Sandy Denny and some Fairport titles in the same rack too, which I may go back for after I check reviews.

Christ, this album is beautiful though. I'm so pleased I risked it today.

Was that Byre's Road or Union St krakow?

Union Street. Upstairs on the first outward facing display rack.

Sandy Denny "Old Fashioned Waltz" and "Rendezvous" remasters for £3 each, Fairport's s/t for £5 and "Nine" and the "Heydey" BBC Sessions for £3 each, from what I remember.

I'm going back for all but "Nine" from my readings, I think.

Mark Hollis album for £3 in Exeter Fopp.

august darnell/kid creole comp on strut ('going places') for £3.

Also picked up the Kid Creole comp, and one of those Ian Dewhirst Northern Soul Story comps for £3. Was looking for the Mark Hollis on the off-chance but they didn't have it in Cambridge. One of the odd effects of Fopp is that I now never buy any Strut compilations until they go down to £5 - they all do eventually.

Loadsa Frank Zappa in Shaftesbury Avenue Fopp for £3-£5, plus 1st 2 Meat Puppets for £3 (all CD btw), get 'em while they're going! Unless you hate Frank Zappa as much as I do that is.

A few more Fairport titles in the sub-£5 bracket in Union St. Glasgow today.

I also completed my Sandy Denny studio album haul for under a fiver each.

Oh I could definitely do with the 1st Meat Puppets for £3, thanks for the heads up

they actually had all of the ryko meat puppets discs when i went in on saturday except the first one. also a few more recent (but ace!) mudhoney albums for £3

Also pretty much every Jethro Tull album for £3! Unfortunately I hate Jethro Tull. Lots of VDGG for £3 too.

Troubleman soundtrack by Marvin Gaye, only £3 the other day, along with a bunch of other Gaye albums.

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.

Was this the Covent Garden Fopp? I want those Meat Puppets records...