Box set of the first five Monkees albums, £13 or thereabouts...
― Mark G, Friday, 24 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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'
― mark e, Thursday, 30 September 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, bought "A Gift to a Flower...", which is wonderful and ludicrous in equal measures
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel a £3 Blue Note/Impulse/Prestige splurge coming on.
― MyFatherWillGuideMeUpARopeToYourMum (MaresNest), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah .. i too thought that when i went in yesterday.they just all look so tempting at that price.
― mark e, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
... Gower Street... inside Waterstones
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
So, is that new Fopp any good?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's okay, they had a surprising amount of stuff the main one didn't. but it's much smaller!
― bitchmaid (sic), Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
New Fopp last week - Superpitcher -Kilimanjiro (in the Rock and Pop section)
― mmmm, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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!)
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I meant to say, first 3 Bee Gees reissues for a total of £9. All gone now though, I think.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
And deluxed R.E.M.s for £3 each.... I'm half out of bed
lol
Which "first 3"?
Also, which Mac expanded ones?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I managed to get "from a flower to a garden" Donovan, for £3. There weren't any others as far as I could tell.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― mark e, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
First there is a bargain, then there is no bargain, then there is.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks, Mark e, but no worries: What will be will.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Twin Peaks Gold Box £18The Prisoner Box £21
Cov Gds
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 18 November 2010 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
may make a trip there this lunchtime...
― Neil S, Thursday, 18 November 2010 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Twin Peaks Gold Box £18
is that season 1 + 2 ?
― mark e, Thursday, 18 November 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, plus extras including the pilot movie
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 November 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
off to see if there is a copy in my local branch. thats very tempting.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 November 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The 2CD Tusk is a fiver...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Spotted today at Cambridge Fopp: Lindstrom and Christabelle (2CD version) £3, Hercules and Love Affair s/t £3, New Amerykah 2 £5.
― seandalai, Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
it came out in both
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
T.Rex on TV, DVD £3
You'd have thought they'd have sent me a free one, but hey.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 January 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Today:
Lemonheads : Shame about Ray (deluxe) £6book: Luke Haines: Britpop - £7Book: Syd - Irregular Head - £3Velvet Underground live DVD £3
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― PJ Miller, Monday, 17 January 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Funnily, the T-Rex DVD has some notes I wrote.
The next time around, I got the VU DVD, mainly because we went to see them back in the day (though I don't think it was that particular gig, maybe the day after).
So, I thought I'd be safe with the Luke book, but my surname's all over one page of it! (Not in relation to myself though)
― Mark G, Monday, 17 January 2011 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet in hardback for three bucks thank you very much
― jed_, Monday, 24 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Sadness.
http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/fopp-off/
― Ukranian crocodile that swallowed a mobile phone (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
My sympathies, dude. My local chain (Newbury Comics) is still going strong though imports are hit and miss and frankly I only buy domestic releases there.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Fopp in Reading, RIP also, back when.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder how long the London branch will last?
All the early Eno cd's for £5 btw, at the moment anyway.
― Satantango! (Matt #2), Friday, 28 January 2011 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
London ones, probably forever (it's always megabizzy there)
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah you do wonder though, what with business rates doubling etc. Maybe they could continually re-open and close again in new premises on the arse-end of Oxford Street, on a rolling 1 month lease, a la dodgy clothing emporiums.
― Satantango! (Matt #2), Friday, 28 January 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
bristol shop is looking somewhat tired.shelves not fit to burst with goodies, and some of the floor space was totally devoid of any racks.for the first time in years, i didn't come out with anything (though was very tempted to just get all of the 'disco discharge' compilations which they had for £7 a pop).i guess the question is - will they get sucked into the money woes of HMV ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Wailing Souls, "Wild Suspense", £2. Gower St. Branch. Couldn't see any other copies, any interesed reggaeheads.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
A life less lived : The Gothic Box 4CD plus book and lace-up box (£15)
Iggy/Stooges : Raw Power/Georgia Peaches £6
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Best of Greensleeves Records: From Dubplate to Download (£3)
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (£3)
And a whole bunch of Virgin Records CDs from back in the day, £3 (from KevCoyne to Magaz and suchlike)
― Mark G, Friday, 15 April 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
(I'm the only one reviving this anymore..)
A whole bunch of early seventies reggae CDs, £3
I went for Dave and Ansell Collins, "Double Barrell"
Oh, there's a bunch of Aphex Twin CDs there, "I care", "RDJamesAlbum", "SelAmVol2" at £5
Which one to go for?
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
have to be honest, the bristol one aint fulfilling my £3/£5 booster sessions these days, and hasn;t for a while now.though, i may be tempted to pick up the o.children album tomorrow if its still there.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
It used to be good for WTF box sets, the last time was the Goth one, £15 which I saw recently in the big HMV for £55.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
the fopps in glasgow has been pretty barren recently - i'm guessing as a consequence of hmv's ongoing probs - tho at the moment they have lots of gd folk albs for 3 quid a pop - fairport, denny, jansch, renbourn etc etc - and yeah, they seem to have bought up a lot of old island stock, too (i got slow dazzle' by john cale today for 3 quid.) also at three quid - rush, status quo, uriah heap, rainbow, thin lizzy, etc.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link