I am surprised the Doc dislikes GP so. I like him, as most people seem to do. I recently discovered how much I like 'I Can't Dance', in a way.
I am thinking of buying SAINT MORRISSEY, the book, from this shop. Should I?
Most surprising recent bargain: Magnetic Fields, HOLIDAY, £5!
But the first copy I bought didn't have a CD in it!
I took it back and got the CD from a copy that said £7 on it.
Bargain!
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
haven't been able to gauge if the web prices are as good as the on-street yet but a good thing surely.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete W (peterw), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought "Mr Isaacs" by Gregory Isaacs
― bham (bham), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
TCR has got confusing new categories, the main one being "alt/modern". Everything earlier than c.1995 comes under "classic rock/singer songwriter".
... which isn't strictly accurate as there's plenty of stuff from pre-1995 in the alt/modern section and there's a fair bit of stuff from post-1995 in classic rock/singer songwriter section, e.g. Can are in the alt/modern section while Faust are in classic rock, even more confusingly Frank Zappa is alt/modern and Petra Haden is classic rock!
Also pricing policy is a bit all over the (record) shop - I noticed the same CD on sale (in different sections but sometimes even in the same section) for £3, £5 and £7! And not just once either! So shop around. So I bought:
Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners £5The Doors - Strange Days £3Todd Rundgren - The Healing £1(!)Lee Perry & Friends - Chapter 3: Live As One £1 (!!)
Chuffed with the last one as it's got a lot of tracks I've been looking for on it.
Of course, shitloads of other stuff I coulda bought and I think prices will tumble even further as the record industry lurches inexorably towards disaster and extinction *rubs hands with glee*
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete W (peterw), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 27 July 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
nice.
gotta be said, that hmv really has had to follow fopp lots; it's not the thing it used to be.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I will go tomorrow morning.
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmm, bit of a way for a Soho-ite like me, but, if EDF stick a pickaxe through our cables again (only jokin', EDF), it's not like I'll be pushed for time.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Although there is quite a good one somewhere in the Soho area actually. I forget exactly where but it it on the junction of two roads at acute angles to each other and thus kinda juts out at you from the front. I bought Earth's first record there for a rip-off tenner...
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Most of the tracks also appear on the 8CD re-issue of the wonderful Atlantic 1947-73(?) box set that came out c. 1987/88. Fopp are selling each of these for £3 each. Vols 7 & 8 are particularly fine: The Spinners "Mighty Love", Beginning Of The End "Funky Nassau", Persuaders "Thin Line Between Love & Hate", Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, and the absolutely STONKING "Compared To What" by Les McCann & Eddie Harris.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Witness the demise of all these over priced rip off mechants in the past decade: Andy's Records, Sam Goody, Tower Records, MVC, Our Price.
Replaced by specialist online shops such as boomkat, e-tailers such as Amazon, supermarkets selling new/chart Cds at discounted prices, plus Jersey/Guersney VAT loop hole etailers, and the growth of discount chains such Fopp and Music Zone.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
parp!
― Enrique's new name (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 July 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 July 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I shall Report Back later. I may be some time.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Here it is:
http://www.fopp.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2530
I used to have this anyway, but decided it was a bit too thorough, compared to the near-perfection* and boundless misery of the first Singles album. But I didn't get the first Singles album to replace it. It is, you may remember, a chance to hear "Your Navy Requests".
Postage is 1.50 if your order is less than 25 pounds.
I don't think I ever want to go to Fopp again after looking through that lot.
* I don't like "Top of the World".
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
-- RJG (RJ...), July 29th, 2006.
REALLY? You don't say!
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
**Cymbal Crash**
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link