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

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.

I've noticed that the behind-the-counter stock shelves are completely empty nowadays in Union Street, Glasgow.

The Island folk stuff for £3 is always good. I didn't spot the John Cale though yesterday, will have to have a second look...

I had a Fopp bargain-rack splurge this week: Pentangle, Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Magazine, Neu, Pere Ubu.

It's great for back catalogue filling in & hole plugging.

Today, not CDs but a book: The Immediate Story, a large thick-ish book for £5.

Basically, ALOldham's bits he wrote about the label for his autobiogs but dropped because of ongoing legal issues (it seems), with lots of pics, sleeves and newspaper articles, and filling in by the author Simon Spence.

ooooooooohh

mmmmmmmmmm

Broken Social Scene, last and first albums for 3 quid and a Dirtybird label 3 CD comp also 3 quid.

Fopp Union Street in Glasgow completely closed up and shut at 4.30 this afternoon. Bad sign?

Really? I've not heard anything about that! Will ask about...

Power problems apparently. They had a sign up outside say my scouts.

Hmm.

Fopp (London) seem to be having a 'deluxe editions' clearout. Loads for £10 each.

VU&Nico (i.e. the first yes JPaxman), Loads of the Cure ones, Siouxsie 1st, Black Sabbaths, Kinks, QOTSA, XRaySpex, TooRyeAy, etc..

Didn't get any. Was tempted by the XRaySpex one but wasn't sure if it still had those 3rd generation demo tapes (as opposed to 1st gen)...

That's quite a tempting price, might take a scout in the Glasgow one tomorrow lunch.

Fopp in Edinburgh has been shit recently. I know it's to be expected when the festival was on and the shop's full of tat but I can't really think of much I've bought from there in the last 6 months or so. Just seems to be the same titles for £3 one week and then £5 the next. I know they had loads of folk stuff in but that's not really my sound. Really hoping it's not a sign of things worsening.

^^^ same re bristol.
i've not bought anything in ages.
in fact, Head is now doing a much better job.
unexpected back catalogue/reissue stuff that you never see in other shops, and at good pocket money prices (eg the momus catalogue for £4 each).

I'm sure there's a "good day" as in "massive amounts of a deluxe title arrive,priced low to clear" day.

e.g. "Tell Tale Signs" 3CD+box, which started off stupidly expensive, I got there for £30, they also had the 4LP version for £20. They didn't hang around, obviously. When do these things tend to arrive? Or can it be any day?

Fopp in Edinburgh

Where is FOPP in Edinburgh these days? I seem to have lost it or forgotten where it is/was.

It's not far from Harvey Nichols

It's on Rose Street, just off St. Andrews Square.

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.

― seandalai, Monday, 8 February 2010 00:58 (1 year ago)

Indeed! Fopp Nottingham currently have a whole display rack of Strut releases on offer for £5 plus free sampler CD. I picked up the Walter Gibbons and Bob Blank comps.

Loads of the £10 deluxe editions in Glasgow Union Street branch, two sides of a full rack pretty much - both older and more recent artists represented, so definitely worth checking out for interested parties.

fopp in union st, Glasgow has been utter shit for jazz,soul and funk cds for years now. It used to be fantastic for it. its just a crappy tiny section on the balcony inbetween floors now.

Got a couple of Ornette albums for £3 a pop in there a couple of weeks back - On Tenor and Twins. But generally, their jazz selection is poor. Ok if you want to plug the Miles and Mingus gaps in your collection, but rubbish for anything that's not on Columbia, Atlantice or Blue Note.

the blue note is nowhere near what it used to be and they also used to have a brilliant impulse section all £5 or under

That's true. They had a good Blue Note sale a couple of years back in which I picked up plenty of goodies. That probably cleared out their stock though. I remember getting a few Impulse! things cheap, but those all seem to have gone now.

Fopp in the late 90s was the basis of my soul and funk collection. Remember getting Stand! for a fiver and it changed my life (well, I was a 15 year old Radiohead fan). The stuff they had back then on vinyl was amazing. If only I'd been into jazz then - I've heard tales of people getting Su Ra vinyl reissues etc for a fiver. David Keenan has stories about coming across all kinds of rare free jazz stuff in the Edinburgh Fopp in Cockburn Street. The founder of Fopp was a big jazzer, so tracked down all kinds of stuff from warehouses.

yeah i got the heliocentric worlds of vols 1 and 2 on vinyl for £5 from fopp up the west end in the late 90s. A lot of my funk lps came from there too. They also supplied Tower with funk vinyl that fopp actually got pressed. once they expanded nationwide it went to shit and obviously went bust.

I really miss the old Fopp. I'll never forget going to Munich on holiday and upon returning going straight to the Cockburn Street branch only to find it closed. A sad and disorienting experience. The vinyl section downstairs played a major role in me starting to vinyl in the first place. Guy that worked there really knew his stuff as well.