― 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
This is a sign from God.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 30 July 2006 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Do Not Play Baseball With Rabbits (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 July 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link
It's massive!
Things of note:
They had new The WHO 12" by the window, in direct sunlight. They were warm to the touch. I expect them to have melted by the end of the week. Anything on the aisle ends by the window is in direct afternoon sunlight. They hadn't thought of that.
The Gram parsons Complete Reprise Sessions box set is £10 more expensive on TCR than on Shaftesbury Avenue. Worth the ten minute walk, I'd say.
They have some lovely lovely stuff from Ace going cheapish, such as the Deep Soul Treasures series, and some funk compilations. This is stuff that I used to pay 2775 pesetas for in Spain, which felt like an awful lot of money. Then they went up to 3200 pesetas and I could no longer afford them. I think they are still my favourite CDs, and I recommend them to anyone who hasn't got them.
They have the Westbound Funkadelic reissues for a fiver each. I would like them.
It looks like they have some nice things on vinyl.
You can walk right through the shop and come out the other side. I like that in a shop.
They have bucked the trend by giving greater prominence to CDs than DVDs near the entrance. Perhaps it is because of the sunlight problem, although I doubt it.
There is not much room in the aisles.
It is not as far up TCR as I thought. It could justifiably be considered to be on my way home.
It is much better than their horrible website.
If I were them, I would have a "board guy" outside Virgin, to speed up the inevitable decline of said Megastore.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I wonder if the Glasgow FOPP has them for £5. Hopefully someone can report back on that next time they're in.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought a copy of Nuggets for my friend. It was £10 in the £5 section but £5 elsewhere which was a little odd.
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I have mixed feelings about the new TCR FOPP. One on hand, I love how its giving the big two fingers to said sad Megastore, a sort of "Look, this is how its done, losers!", yet I kind of miss how four or five years ago, that solitary store @ Cambridge Circus was the best kept secret in town.
Maybe I'm worried that once it does see off Virgin and the increasingly pathetic HMV, it'll abandon "stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap" and adopt the "stack 'em high and sell 'em expensive" policy of those stores.
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I found it hard to find the new releases section!
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
A friend of mine works there and he admitted that some of the stock is in odd places because they didn't know where else to put it, while on other occasions things had been classified oddly.
Still, that's half the fun.
PS I'm quite taken with the MVE basement!
― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Irmin Schmidt - Soundtracks 3xCD £7 - bargain? Or the krautrock equivalent of Prince's Emancipation?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Doi Doing! (Dada), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link