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

but Fopp will still it for £2, even it it's worth more?

They might, because the time it takes them to check every CD to make sure it's not an original issue of "Lick my decals" would be more than the potential increase in revenue.

or something...

Barcode scanning linked to amazon marketplace prices should be easy to implement.

Big Eno deal on, presumably not just confined to Glasgow Byres Road. The remastered digipacks for a fiver and the rest for three a pop. So there's the song albums, plus On Land, Apollo etc.

Also some nice new jazz stuff - Prestige, Riverside, Original Jazz Classics stuff. So loads of Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey etc. Ended up with Monk play Ellington, Monk's Music, Eric Dolphy Out There, Sonny Rollins Out West, and The Quintet (Parker, Gillespie, Mingus, Roach, Powell).

£3 for the jazz, I should add.

but Fopp will still it for £2, even it it's worth more?

Rare indeed is the second hand CD that is worth more than £2. Obviously there are exceptions like Decals but by and large there is practically no collectors market in used CDs.

Tell that to MVE.

I manage to sell CDs for pretty good money on ebay, but yes mainstream or unfashionable back catalogue CDs don't go for much if at all.

Now if they'd just put the eno reissues down to £3.

They have! Bought Here Come The Warm Jets, On Land, Apollo, Music For Films and Before And After Science from Byres Road Glasgow. These were all they had.

the cramps : songs the lord taught us
the cramps : psychedlic jungle

£3 each. at last.
been on a cramps crush now for a few weeks since i picked up off the bone, so well chuffed these were added to the cheapskate pile.

Bought Apollo and Discreet Music £3 each from Gower St. London. Fancy going back for few more Eno ones. Will prob try the £1 off with an old CD/DVD offer thing when I buy something reasonably priced.

Monsieur le Fopp in Covent Garden had many great bargains yesterday, such as a few BFI Flipside DVD and Blu-ray releases for £3 or £5 (I got Little Malcolm, Lunch Hour and Voice Over), as well of plenty of other similarly priced DVDs of interest ( Sleep Furiously, for example) in their special clearance bins. Bargain of the day was probably the Stevie Wonder box set with a few minor scuffs on the packaging for £5 (also available in perfect nick for £15, itself a bargain) but I somehow resisted this.

All this and I think I passed Marcello downstairs in Sounds of the Universe.

I was there yesterday lunchtime so it's highly likely! Sorry I missed you but my mind was on the curious vinyl there (all at competitive Sounds of the Universe prices of course).

Ah! You were very polite, said excuse me to get by and everything.

I see HMV have started doing the trade-in thing, so they have a big rack of crap at £2 each as well.

Perhaps they've got a deal to send them over to China for recycling into street furniture like all those Robbie Williams CDs

They've had some good jazz 2 for £5 offers on in Glasgow lately (and elsewhere I'd imagine). The Impulse 2-in-1s went pretty quickly (got Black Saint/Mingusx3) but there are bunch of Riverside and Prestige albums there: late 50s Trane, loads of Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner (got the awesome Enlightenment live album from 1973) etc

McCoy Tyner (got the awesome Enlightenment live album from 1973

incredible record, a+++ purchase

Yeah, first read about it on an ILX thread, so I doff my cap to yourself and anyone else who raved about it. Nice to have a proper copy. I'm also a big fan of Sahara, which I picked up a couple of years back. Saw him in Prague last year - free concert in Old Town Square - and while he wasn't going for it like on those classic sides, it was a classy set of Latin tinged post-bop with Gary Bartz on sax. There were a couple of other Tyner CDs there, so I shall investigate further.

Different thing:

In Fopp CovGard, they have a bunch of "X-Factor Karaoke Kits" for £5

What they actually are, is a fairly decent microphone and mixer. Decent for a fiver anyway, metal not plastic.

I got one a while ago at a 'outlet' for £10, did one of the ILX Xmas track vocals using it, not bad...

(Probably a fiver's worth of cables in the box at least anyway..)

very little in the way of interesting cds in cov garden fopp last night, more and more of the ground floor seems to be given over to, mostly foreign, dvds. but that's fine by me. some Bela Tarr dvds for a fiver each (Damnation, Man from London, Werckmeister, but i didn't see Satantango) and the Wajda war trilogy box that's been on my amazon wishlist ever since i caught the first two on Film4 and then deleted the last before watching it in some bizarre PVR accident.

I was tempted by the Theo Angelopoulos box sets the other day, but maybe I should work through the 20+ hours of unwatched DVDs I already have rather than buying anything new. Still, they were cheap...

(20+ hours of unwatched DVDs... i hear this. have about 20 in front of the tv and have just bought outer limits box set that was 26 hours for £12. but i just think of them as choices rather than an excess)

A Bella Union side-rack promotion in the Nottingham Fopp has John Grant's Queen Of Denmark - my favourite album of the decade thus far - at a mere three quid.

Do Fopp still buy 2nd hand CDs?

The CovGard and Bloomsbury Fopps still do, but the used racks are nothing to write home about.

They are the definition of "unwanted", really.

XP Mike T, if they have the Thousands record in that Bella Union rack, you might like it too.

Thanks for the tip, will take a look next time I'm in...

£30 in fopp this afternoon, could easily have been twice that - the current dvd selection matches my tastes well

unthanks - bairns (cd) £3
the thing (dvd 2011) £3
akira (dvd) £5
la belle et la bete (bfi dvd) £5
innocents (bfi dvd) £5
bed sitting room (bfi dvd+br) £9
(also had loads of bergman, lots more bfi, especially the flipside range, lots of kurosawa (although the sets were more expensive than amazon iirc))

Not Fopp, possibly, but the HMV I went to had most of the Blur deluxe editions for £3 each!

Has FOPP been picking up the Zappa reissues? Been wondering, just in case I get to be near one in the foreseeable future.

Last time I was there, no.

Glasgow Union Street branch had a copy of each Zappa last time I was in.

but pricewise?

Full price. £10-£14 or something.

Right so probably better to get mailorder where the unit is € so a bit cheaper. But really need to know if issues with Grand Wazoo not playing were ironed out. Seemed to be pretty widespread.

BFI sale on at the moment. Got the early films of Peter Greenaway vol.1, Geoffrey Jones Rhythm Of Film and COI Police And Thieves for £16. Also got Ilya Khrzhanovskii's amazing 4 for £7.

That double Beta Band double DVD was just purchased for a mere £3.

The Delta Band's double DVD?

for a quarter of the price

hmv westfield (W12) has a bunch of music books for £1.99 or so. i (think i) saw england's dreaming, rip it up, totally wired, the rest is noise, that kind of stuff...

Yeah, saw those in Reading branch too.

Gower St London branch (inside the Waterstones), £3 for lots of Atlantic jazz stuff - MJQ, Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman (Free Jazz, This is our Music), Alice Coltrane, plenty more.

Anything particularly interesting in the Waterstones remainders section, if you visited?

ha, was passing through fopp on my way there.

Most eye-catching thing was nice hardback selection from OUP reprints - classics, ancient history, medieval history - this sort of thing. About £7 per volume. They looked very good, things like a study of grain mills in late medieval europe total catnip to me, but I didn't buy in the end. I don't remember anything else tempting me.

They look great! Thanks.

Nottingham Fopp has started "local act Tuesdays", asking for CDs to be brought into the store so they can be played. But they're not permitted to actually sell them.