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

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.

today i grabbed :

iamamiwhoiam : kin
salem : king night
abc - zillionaire (expanded reissue)
mark stewart - exorcism of envy
pepe deluxe - queen of the wave
tangerine dream - ricochet
tangerine dream - encore
tangerine dream - stratosphere

for a wallet busting £20.

well chuffed.

wooo ..

the mark stewart dub cd is one of those black cds.

love those ...

(its also produced by youth, and so not all extreme noise a la other mark stewart material .. i.e. its rather bloody good)

in fopp union st today: p much all of miles davis' columbia catalogue, 2009 remastered editions in card sleeves, for £3 singles and £4 doubles

yeah, there is a glut of these cardboard editions these days.
they are clearly the remnants of unsold boxsets, as fopp now do the same for abba, weather report, elo etc ..

Fopp Byres Rd also had some nice Japanese jazz reissues w/ obi strips for £3-5.

We really missed an opportunity to call this the Rolling Fopping Thread. Mark G I think you should make a requests to the mods!

It was a different time.

And no, I don't reply within seconds to every shout-out..

I think the original point I was making was:

If we still had to pay £15 for every cd, we'd buy less and play them more..

And no, I don't reply within seconds to every shout-out..

Aye, you're slipping!

Fopp is apparently not selling second-hand vinyl anymore; a real shame, as I picked up some weird and wonderful stuff from their used bins>

£3 Miles Davis cardboard editions are all gone too. Kicking myself that I didn't pick some up during my last browsing session. Is this just a Notts problem, or have they gone from all Fopp shops?

Isn't Anything remaster for £3 in cov garden branch.

(cheap foreign dvds seem to be Second Run focused at the mo (mainly good eastern european stuff) and film4 stuff. bought Daisies for £7)

(and the '2 for £5 books' also plentiful)