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

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...

yep.

Yes it was. I think I got the last copies of I/II - hopefully they'll have more somewhere. There were loads of UOTS/Monsters/Huevos and the Classic Puppets comp.

I got the only copy of Mirage I could see (in the new £3 racks upstairs), what a weird attempt to go mainstream that album was. Also look out for The Host on DVD (£1!).

Think I might be popping along there this week then. I find I'm unable to buy single CDs, because it always seems somehow pointless, so I didn't buy that Marvin Gaye one the other day.

plenty of meat puppets I and II in leicester square / covent garden / seven dials / whatever last night, albeit at £5. ground floor, middle, top shelf.

Damn you folks and your cheap Meat Pups!

I had II already, but I picked up the S/T, Mirage, Up On The Sun & Huevos for a fiver a piece.

I am not willing to admit quite how much I've spent on the Zappa stuff in the last couple of weeks. Suffice to say, a lot.

YEAAAAAAAAH

That's the sound of Fopp'a managers when they see me walking in.

I got some THROBBING GRISTLE and ROXY MUSIC albums for £3 each.

What Throbbing Gristle?

I remember getting 20 jazzfunk for that, couple years ago.

£3 purchases at cambridge fopp last week:
- scritti cupid and psyche 85
- zero martin hannett story
- magazing correct use of soap
- pet shop boys actually
- grizzly man dvd
- encounters at edge of world (£4)

Plenty Roxy/BF solo too

My purchases last week, all £3;
Roxy Music - Siren
Kenny Dope / Karizma mix 2xCD
The Complete Robert Johnson
Yeah Yeah Yeah's Fever To Tell
Fire Walk With Me DVD
Black Narcissus DVD

Throbbing Gristle live recordings - Misson of Dead Souls and Vols 2 & 3 of Throbbing Gristle Live.

Vols 2 & 3 of Throbbing Gristle Live

You mean the slipcased box that came out on Mute a few years ago? I thought that was only available as a box, not as individual CDs.

Lots of Blue Note CDs for £3 (Cambridge Fopp). Picked up a couple of Donald Byrds.

A number of shorter Hemingway books for £2 in Glasgow Union Street, along with Lawrence's "Women In Love".

I don't know if the Throbbing Gristle was ever a box, but it is The Grey Area of Mute 1993. (I didn't get very far when I tried actually listening to it.)

Kenneth Anger Magick Lantern Cycle 2XDVD £12 (from the "this is the gay section, Eddie" section).

Located the 2nd Roxy Music album for £3, well stoked, as it's an absolute winner. I'd previously only managed to find the later ones.

central glasgow branch buys:

cds:
search for the new land - lee morgan £3 - early shorter/hancock pairing, lee's most 'adventurous' 60s alb

money jungle - ellington/mingus/roach £3 - playing it right now, always enjoy how monkian/modern the duke sounds on this sesh, and mingus is amazing throughout

our man in paris - dexter gordon £3 - the one w/ bud powell on it

books:
thurston moore and byron coley's no-wave nyc bk - £3

dvds:
dbl disc of rebel w/out a cause - £3
synecdoche, new york - £4 (can't tell if the "smash-hit comedy of the year!" blurb on the front is ironic or not)

thurston moore and byron coley's no-wave nyc bk - £3

Still been >£10 South of the border up to last week, been waiting for this to drop in price.

its 5 in hmv right now