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

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

lol

Which "first 3"?

Also, which Mac expanded ones?

I managed to get "from a flower to a garden" Donovan, for £3. There weren't any others as far as I could tell.

mr g. : bristol place still has t'others for £3.

if you are of a mind to need them, i could sort you out ?

or then again, perhaps your local place will be able to reallocate some from the bristol shop ?

(never asked myself, but you would think it possible)

First there is a bargain, then there is no bargain, then there is.

Thanks, Mark e, but no worries: What will be will.

Made it to the new Fopp in Gower street, ostensibly in Waterstones but it has it's own entrance.

Loads of stuff, not as big as the shaftesburyave one, but still. Got "The Drift" and the JapLP styled CD of "End of the Century" Ramones. £3 each. Oh, they have plenty of the Donovan.

Twin Peaks Gold Box £18
The Prisoner Box £21

Cov Gds

may make a trip there this lunchtime...

Twin Peaks Gold Box £18

is that season 1 + 2 ?

yeah, plus extras including the pilot movie

off to see if there is a copy in my local branch. thats very tempting.

The 2CD Tusk is a fiver...

Spotted today at Cambridge Fopp: Lindstrom and Christabelle (2CD version) £3, Hercules and Love Affair s/t £3, New Amerykah 2 £5.

Lindstrom and Christabelle (2CD version) £3

spotted that today.
guess it didn't sell quite as well as the label had hoped.
waiting to see if the label are going to do the same thing with the last annie album they released, as that too came out in a ltd edition 2cd set.

it came out in both

T.Rex on TV, DVD £3

You'd have thought they'd have sent me a free one, but hey.

Today:

Lemonheads : Shame about Ray (deluxe) £6
book: Luke Haines: Britpop - £7
Book: Syd - Irregular Head - £3
Velvet Underground live DVD £3

Chung-King Express £3 if you buy something else as well. Including a badge for 50p, so £3.50 then.

Masses of other stuff, as usual.