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

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.

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)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet in hardback for three bucks thank you very much

Sadness.

http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/fopp-off/

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.

Yeah, the Fopp in Reading, RIP also, back when.

Wonder how long the London branch will last?

All the early Eno cd's for £5 btw, at the moment anyway.

London ones, probably forever (it's always megabizzy there)

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.

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 ?

Wailing Souls, "Wild Suspense", £2. Gower St. Branch. Couldn't see any other copies, any interesed reggaeheads.

A life less lived : The Gothic Box 4CD plus book and lace-up box (£15)

Iggy/Stooges : Raw Power/Georgia Peaches £6

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)

(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?

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.

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.

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.