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

parp!

I shall Report Back later. I may be some time.

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".

-- RJG (RJ...), July 29th, 2006.

REALLY? You don't say!

**Cymbal Crash**

This is a sign from God.

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.

I wonder if the Glasgow FOPP has them for £5. Hopefully someone can report back on that next time they're in.

I bought a copy of Nuggets for my friend. It was £10 in the £5 section but £5 elsewhere which was a little odd.

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.

I found it hard to find the new releases section!

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!

Irmin Schmidt - Soundtracks 3xCD £7 - bargain? Or the krautrock equivalent of Prince's Emancipation?

Amazing Grace is £7 in glasgow.

got Nuggets for a fiver (am not convinced of its greatness, was expecting Psychedelia and got a lot of people trying to be the Beatles, Stones or Dylan). also bought Leonard Cohen (one of his cds anyway).

not always, no. and the thing they were trying to be was merseybeat era beatles. (track i'm thinking of is Knickerbockers : 'Lies')

WTF??

We could have a TCR Fopp FAP!

Edinburgh Fopp no longer serves beer. It was a rubbish idea.