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

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

Glasgow Byres Road has Beach Boys DVDs Endless Harmony (French issue, but not dubbed) and Nashville Sounds (worth a laugh if you're a diehard) - both £3.

Annoyingly, the three or so Bryan Ferry Remasters I don't have are all remain full price in the Union St. branch, unlike the rest.

i got the moore/coley book in HMV on Oxford St for £4 today. And also Renegade by Mark E Smith for £2 from one of those shit always CLOSING DOWN EVERYTHING MUST GO places

The surfeit of £3 Blue Note CDs drives me crazy everytime I go in there.

sunday's £3 haul:

miles davis - milestones (plus the musings of miles and blue moods)
miles davis - kind of blue (plus ascenseur pour lechafaud + somethin' else)
charles mingus - the complete town hall concert
art blakey - moanin' (plus orgy in rhythm)

9 jazz albums for £12. result.

Milestones is great. Coltrane is on fire on that album. I picked up Wayne Shorter's The Soothsayer and Art Blakey's A Night In Tunisia the other day. £3 each. They had The House That Trane Built, that glossy book on Impulse Records for £4 too, which I may pick up. Now if only Fopp were to do a £3 sale on Impulse stuff, that would make me inordinately happy.

indeed it is. tbh, the musings of miles/blue moods are relatively bland. but still, those 3-in-1 albums are a pretty great deal.

saw that trane book, was sorely tempted. not that I'll have time to read it, mind...

if fopp did a £3 impulse sale I would be very happy but very poor.

I think they had a load of Impulse stuff for £5 last time I was in the Covent Garden one.

Box set of the first five Monkees albums, £13 or thereabouts...

todays treat.

donovan reissued catalogue on cd with tons of extra tracks etc.

sunshine superman/mellow yellow/the hurdy gurdy man/a gift from a flower to a garden(never even seen this on cd before !)/barabajagal

£3 each.

upon purchasing : 'you're not the only person today to have bought this lot'

Yeah, bought "A Gift to a Flower...", which is wonderful and ludicrous in equal measures

I feel a £3 Blue Note/Impulse/Prestige splurge coming on.

yeah .. i too thought that when i went in yesterday.
they just all look so tempting at that price.

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but there's a new FOPP in London... yes that's right, a new record (/dvd/book) shop

... Gower Street... inside Waterstones

So, is that new Fopp any good?

it's okay, they had a surprising amount of stuff the main one didn't. but it's much smaller!

Oh, while I'm here:

"How not to run a nightclub" Peter Hook, £3 (the hardback)

"Soul to Soul" CD&DVD, basically: Soul people go to Ghana, 1971 or thereabouts (Ike&Tina, WPickett, Staplesingers, etc), £3

New Fopp last week - Superpitcher -Kilimanjiro (in the Rock and Pop section)

the fopps in glasgow really seem to have gone downhill in recent months, in terms of 'new' bargains (and especially so w dvds) - though i did pick up some great comics-related bks at bargain prices recently (the art of harvey kurtzman for three quid!)

Buying the first 3 expanded reissues for £9 recently, and the deluxe R.E.M. for £9, The Monkees' 'Head' for £3, The 3 expanded 70s Fleetwood Mac big-sellers for £5 each - pretty good I'd say. At least 4 Donovan reissues are all going for £3 each.

I meant to say, first 3 Bee Gees reissues for a total of £9. All gone now though, I think.

And deluxed R.E.M.s for £3 each.... I'm half out of bed