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

Did you buy Lou, Jed?

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.

or even that KIND of thing but king of thing is pretty correct in a 2009 sense.

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?

"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.

Wow. That's £30-odd quid for a used copy on Amazon.

Never seen it cheaper than £16 before.

Which was fair enough, I guess, but I have Out Here off a tape from the album..

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, £3
A Joe Meek 4 track single, £1
a "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..

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?

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)

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.

Oooh, hope they do likewise at Fopplondon

A 4 7" single Reggae set, £3
"Flow Motion" Can, CD, £3
A Joe Meek 4 track single, £1
a "Reggae Greats" 4CD box/book for £3 (criminal, that price!)
and "I wanna punk rock" 10 7" singles box, £2 (so's that!)

Blimey. I guess I'm going to Fopp this lunchtime then!

Those Reggae and the punk ones are Sanctuary, true. Actually, so's that Joe Meek one.

So, what's happening Sancwise?

Oh, Google seems to suggest there's a Fopp in Wardour street.

True?

Trojan is Sanctuary. Hope they'e not going under or sumthin'.

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...

Fopp website only lists the Shaftesbury Ave/Charing Cross Rd one

The Wardour Street address appears to be Fopp's head office rather than a shop as such.

Ah right. Ta.

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.

You lucky bastard, they better have that stuff in the London one

lee perry - dubstrumentals [3 complete lee perry albums on 2 cds]

I have got this though. £3??!?!?!?

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).

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.

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)

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.

I keep hoping the Can remasters will turn up in the £5 section, but not yet.

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.

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.

Whereabouts were the I Wanna Punk Rock boxes then? I suppose I should've asked...

There were some upstairs, some downstairs, and a big stack behind the till.

(not downstairs, I mean ground floor)

I think they must have sold them all, I looked upstairs and ground floor.

They're punk rock daft, them kids

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.

I think the problem with that set was that the 2CD sets had been bought individually already by those that might have wanted it.

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.

I got a Black Oak Arkansas 2CD compilation for £5! Carry on...

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.

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.

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.

New Boots & Panties, Kill 'em All, Never Say Die, Sweet 2cd anthology, Steeleye Span - 10 Man Mop 2cd expanded - all £3
Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump - £5
That Sun Records 8cd + 7" thing - £15
and 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.

Three quidders:

Johnny Guitar Watson - 3CD anthology (yowzah!)
Steeleye Span - Ten Man Mop (2CD edition)

Both Sanctuary, so hopefully other Steeleye + folk stuff available

Sun Ra, "Space is the Place" DVD, £4

Hmm, what else? (Might be passing tomorrow)

Definitely worth popping in

oh boo I won't be around for ages. Last time I was there there were a surprising number of decent books for £2, I got myself a couple of Virginia Woolf novels, a Hemingway one, and some hardback collection of Jonathan Franzen essays at that price. There seems to be more in the way of the very very cheap than there used to be.

I'd be up for Franzen at cheap, but all the bargain books in our city centre branch are a bit rubbish to my mind.

Well, a bit light this time. Mind you, last time was sensational! (See upthread)

Anyway, settled for
"Right time, wrong speed" the John Peel 2CD, £5
"Tomorrow" (Keith West, Mark Wirtz,etc) £7

Happy with that.