Fab to know that Arctic Monkeys are finally being sold at the right price.
I bought the 5CD Lou Reed box and boy, was that worth it! Terrific series of musical encounters, journey through the 1970s.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 11 January 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
how much for that pinefox? is that the one in the long box?
― jed_, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
just a wee box, £15, the 1970s LPs. It's smashing.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
jed, check amazon.co.uk, they have the same sets there (there are 20 or so 5cd sets for different artists)
― koogs, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
a Kate Bush one would be a beautiful thing
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
cheers fox and koogs
― jed_, Sunday, 11 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
3 cd herbie hancock boxset : head hunters/sextant/thrust (reissues) - a mere £6.
sorry zavvi, but you're nowhere near that level of VFM.
― mark e, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Did you buy Lou, Jed?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't like Dada, I'm afraid - it's like a KKK version of Fopp for Fifty Quid Hornby Man with lots of old stuff but no hip hop, R&B or dancehall whatsoever because wealthy white leather jacketed residents of Chiswick clearly have no stomach for that king of thing.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
or even that KIND of thing but king of thing is pretty correct in a 2009 sense.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
They had a bunch of Rudy Van Gelder edition Blue Note things for four quid on a rack at the weekend (but maybe they always have that, I really don't go there often enough to know). Anyhow got Cecil Taylor's 'Conquistador!' amongst other things.
Also got Paul Wilkinson's Black Sabbath book (Rat Salad) for two whole pounds. It's a nice enough looking object, but flicking through it on the train home, it looks like it might actually be a somewhat dull-ish read - track by track descriptions of the first six albums, with quite a lot of space given to discussion of chord progressions and such. And lots of 'Wings released their second album, Chicory Tip were top of the charts' scene setting guffage too, which doesn't really turn me on a whole lot. Might be wrong though, who nose.
Anyone care to rank the McCoy Tyner solo stuff on Blue Note for me?
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Monday, 26 January 2009 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"Love" - The Blue Thumb albums.
One double album on CD1 (Out Here)One single album on CD2 (False Start)One live album on CD3.
£5.
Lovely.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. That's £30-odd quid for a used copy on Amazon.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2009 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Never seen it cheaper than £16 before.
Which was fair enough, I guess, but I have Out Here off a tape from the album..
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
So, what with Zavvi closing the day before I could get to TCR, and my sometime coach trip overnight from Victoria to Newcastle, thought I'd pop into Fopp, not believing there'd be much different to 2 weeks ago.
Hmm!
Let's just say if I hadn;t been travelling, there'd be a bunch of Lee Perry singles comps (2LP's) £3 , Who box sets £12 and other such (They had the 4CD Amy Winehouse box for £5, more of those Bedazzled DVDs, and that Warner Wertzog DVD collection that ICurtis would have died for oops very sorry now shamed)
Anyway, settled on:
A 4 7" single Reggae set, £3"Flow Motion" Can, CD, £3A Joe Meek 4 track single, £1a "Reggae Greats" 4CD box/book for £3 (criminal, that price!)and "I wanna punk rock" 10 7" singles box, £2 (so's that!)
Theye had literally hundreds of that box!
Might go and poll that..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
which fopp is that? I'm on London next thursday and never been to Fopp before...
do they have much in the way of vinyl bargains in general?
― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Not tons of different things, but quite a lot of 'ooh, might try that' items in bulk quantities.
Shaftesbury Avenue, between Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road tube. (LSq is closer one, go north from there)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
in the bristol fopp, they are clearing out excess sanctuary stock. hence the antidote records back catalogue is now @ £3 a pop (madlib/nextmen/shortcut cut up mixes of trojan classics being of brilliance, as is the Steinski mix of sugarhill), along with a LOT of trojan/sanctaury stuff for £3.tis almost too much choice.
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh, hope they do likewise at Fopplondon
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Blimey. I guess I'm going to Fopp this lunchtime then!
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Those Reggae and the punk ones are Sanctuary, true. Actually, so's that Joe Meek one.
So, what's happening Sancwise?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, Google seems to suggest there's a Fopp in Wardour street.
True?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Trojan is Sanctuary. Hope they'e not going under or sumthin'.
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, Google seems to suggest there's a Fopp in Wardour street.First I've heard of it, but if it's true it'll be closer to me, so I'd best have a look...
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Fopp website only lists the Shaftesbury Ave/Charing Cross Rd one
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wardour Street address appears to be Fopp's head office rather than a shop as such.
― Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah right. Ta.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
lunch time bonus points :
pama international - trojan sessions [very rare as the album was never distributed as it was caught in the sanctuary collapse chaos]savage pencil presents .. lion vs dragon in dub [worth it for the cover alone !]king tubby meets the aggravators at dub station [allmusic tells me this a classic album]lee perry - dubstrumentals [3 complete lee perry albums on 2 cds]trojan uk hits box set - 3 cd set of all the 70s reggae stuff you know from the radio - a party soundtrack in a box.
£15.
thats me sorted for a few days.
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
You lucky bastard, they better have that stuff in the London one
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lee perry - dubstrumentals [3 complete lee perry albums on 2 cds]
I have got this though. £3??!?!?!?
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
mad innit.i am grinning from ear to ear.never even seen the savage pencil set before, but at that price .. you just know that once this stock is gone, these cds will be impossible to track down (a la when they cleared out the Output catalogue for £3 each).
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Bugger. Oh well, I did manage to pick up a load of Lee Perry vinyl boxsets for £3 over Christmas. But nothing of that nature on cd back then. I don't even have a bloody record player at the mo. But couldn't resist.
― sam500, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
and "I wanna punk rock" 10 7" singles box, £2 (so's that!)
Was looking for this but couldn't find it :(
The Can CD's aren't the remasters, so sod that. MASSES of cheap reggae but dunno where to start with that, nothing I'm specifically looking for. Ended up just getting the new(ish) Portishead & Spiritualized CDs (£5 & £3 respectively)
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The Can CD's aren't the remasters, so sod that.
yeah i was rly back-and-forth on these. i've got the canonical ones on remaster, dunno if i need the other stuff THAT much on pricey remaster, but held back nonetheless.
― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I keep hoping the Can remasters will turn up in the £5 section, but not yet.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I did get the "Future Days" remaster for £5 (here), back when Rdg had one.
That punk set? They had tons! Literally. Did you ask? Or maybe they sold like buckets, or got redistibuted or something.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
The "Flow Motion" wasn't the remaster, true, in fact I bought it sort-of by accident, as I had forgotten I was still holding it when I went to the till. £3 though.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Whereabouts were the I Wanna Punk Rock boxes then? I suppose I should've asked...
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
There were some upstairs, some downstairs, and a big stack behind the till.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
(not downstairs, I mean ground floor)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I think they must have sold them all, I looked upstairs and ground floor.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
They're punk rock daft, them kids
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't see any of those punk sets in the bristol, though i wasn't really looking to be honest.there were lots (LOTS) of copies of the amy winehouse 4 cd boxset (4 cds ?) for a mere £4.
― mark e, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the problem with that set was that the 2CD sets had been bought individually already by those that might have wanted it.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I got all the £3 Can albums (5 in total); even though they aren't the remasters, I couldn't resist. Also got a Carter Family 2CD for £3 and Miles Davis "Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time" 2CD for £6.
― krakow, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I got a Black Oak Arkansas 2CD compilation for £5! Carry on...
― Matt #2, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Clancy Eccles 2cd anthology + Ranking Joe's "Dub It In a Dance", £3 each. Could have got more, but wasn't in a buying mood.
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
decided it was time to fill out my meagre Trojan collection. so, got all 5 volumes of the "Tighten Up" series (2002 expanded editions).may go back on friday for more, if there is anything left by then.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Shut It! Music from the Sweeney CD + a Hot Butter comp CD + a Colissem II 2CD thing + the Rush R30 2DVD+2CD box set, all for £3 (from Cambridge Circus)
The shop was pretty busy last night too; the box sets on special offer seemed to be flying off the shelves.
― Jeff W, Friday, 27 February 2009 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
New Boots & Panties, Kill 'em All, Never Say Die, Sweet 2cd anthology, Steeleye Span - 10 Man Mop 2cd expanded - all £3Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump - £5That Sun Records 8cd + 7" thing - £15and the crowning glory - Uriah Heep : You Can't Keep A Good Band Down (first 7 albums in cd replica sleeves + box) - £5
Happy birthday to me! 41 today and I spent £40 - the only way of making it £41 I could see was some Kooks album or something, so no.
― Matt #2, Saturday, 28 February 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link