very little in the way of interesting cds in cov garden fopp last night, more and more of the ground floor seems to be given over to, mostly foreign, dvds. but that's fine by me. some Bela Tarr dvds for a fiver each (Damnation, Man from London, Werckmeister, but i didn't see Satantango) and the Wajda war trilogy box that's been on my amazon wishlist ever since i caught the first two on Film4 and then deleted the last before watching it in some bizarre PVR accident.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was tempted by the Theo Angelopoulos box sets the other day, but maybe I should work through the 20+ hours of unwatched DVDs I already have rather than buying anything new. Still, they were cheap...
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:00 (eleven years ago) link
(20+ hours of unwatched DVDs... i hear this. have about 20 in front of the tv and have just bought outer limits box set that was 26 hours for £12. but i just think of them as choices rather than an excess)
― koogs, Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
A Bella Union side-rack promotion in the Nottingham Fopp has John Grant's Queen Of Denmark - my favourite album of the decade thus far - at a mere three quid.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 19 July 2012 09:26 (eleven years ago) link
Do Fopp still buy 2nd hand CDs?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
The CovGard and Bloomsbury Fopps still do, but the used racks are nothing to write home about.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
They are the definition of "unwanted", really.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
XP Mike T, if they have the Thousands record in that Bella Union rack, you might like it too.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, will take a look next time I'm in...
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
£30 in fopp this afternoon, could easily have been twice that - the current dvd selection matches my tastes well
unthanks - bairns (cd) £3the thing (dvd 2011) £3akira (dvd) £5la belle et la bete (bfi dvd) £5innocents (bfi dvd) £5bed sitting room (bfi dvd+br) £9(also had loads of bergman, lots more bfi, especially the flipside range, lots of kurosawa (although the sets were more expensive than amazon iirc))
― koogs, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
Not Fopp, possibly, but the HMV I went to had most of the Blur deluxe editions for £3 each!
― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
Has FOPP been picking up the Zappa reissues? Been wondering, just in case I get to be near one in the foreseeable future.
― Stevolende, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Last time I was there, no.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Glasgow Union Street branch had a copy of each Zappa last time I was in.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
but pricewise?
― Mark G, Saturday, 13 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
Full price. £10-£14 or something.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
Right so probably better to get mailorder where the unit is € so a bit cheaper. But really need to know if issues with Grand Wazoo not playing were ironed out. Seemed to be pretty widespread.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 14 October 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
BFI sale on at the moment. Got the early films of Peter Greenaway vol.1, Geoffrey Jones Rhythm Of Film and COI Police And Thieves for £16. Also got Ilya Khrzhanovskii's amazing 4 for £7.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
That double Beta Band double DVD was just purchased for a mere £3.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Delta Band's double DVD?
― good naber He help get undr control (sic), Saturday, 17 November 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
for a quarter of the price
― Mark G, Saturday, 17 November 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
hmv westfield (W12) has a bunch of music books for £1.99 or so. i (think i) saw england's dreaming, rip it up, totally wired, the rest is noise, that kind of stuff...
― koogs, Monday, 17 June 2013 09:11 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, saw those in Reading branch too.
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 09:18 (ten years ago) link
Gower St London branch (inside the Waterstones), £3 for lots of Atlantic jazz stuff - MJQ, Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman (Free Jazz, This is our Music), Alice Coltrane, plenty more.
― woof, Monday, 1 July 2013 12:36 (ten years ago) link
Anything particularly interesting in the Waterstones remainders section, if you visited?
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Monday, 1 July 2013 12:38 (ten years ago) link
ha, was passing through fopp on my way there.
Most eye-catching thing was nice hardback selection from OUP reprints - classics, ancient history, medieval history - this sort of thing. About £7 per volume. They looked very good, things like a study of grain mills in late medieval europe total catnip to me, but I didn't buy in the end. I don't remember anything else tempting me.
― woof, Monday, 1 July 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
They look great! Thanks.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Monday, 1 July 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
Nottingham Fopp has started "local act Tuesdays", asking for CDs to be brought into the store so they can be played. But they're not permitted to actually sell them.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 4 July 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
today i grabbed :
iamamiwhoiam : kinsalem : king nightabc - zillionaire (expanded reissue)mark stewart - exorcism of envypepe deluxe - queen of the wavetangerine dream - ricochettangerine dream - encoretangerine dream - stratosphere
for a wallet busting £20.
well chuffed.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
wooo ..
the mark stewart dub cd is one of those black cds.
love those ...
(its also produced by youth, and so not all extreme noise a la other mark stewart material .. i.e. its rather bloody good)
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
in fopp union st today: p much all of miles davis' columbia catalogue, 2009 remastered editions in card sleeves, for £3 singles and £4 doubles
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah, there is a glut of these cardboard editions these days.they are clearly the remnants of unsold boxsets, as fopp now do the same for abba, weather report, elo etc ..
― mark e, Friday, 18 October 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Fopp Byres Rd also had some nice Japanese jazz reissues w/ obi strips for £3-5.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 18 October 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
We really missed an opportunity to call this the Rolling Fopping Thread. Mark G I think you should make a requests to the mods!
― Scooby Doom (۩), Friday, 7 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
It was a different time.
And no, I don't reply within seconds to every shout-out..
― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
I think the original point I was making was:
If we still had to pay £15 for every cd, we'd buy less and play them more..
― Mark G, Friday, 7 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
Aye, you're slipping!
― Scooby Doom (۩), Saturday, 8 March 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Fopp is apparently not selling second-hand vinyl anymore; a real shame, as I picked up some weird and wonderful stuff from their used bins>
£3 Miles Davis cardboard editions are all gone too. Kicking myself that I didn't pick some up during my last browsing session. Is this just a Notts problem, or have they gone from all Fopp shops?
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Sunday, 16 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Isn't Anything remaster for £3 in cov garden branch.
(cheap foreign dvds seem to be Second Run focused at the mo (mainly good eastern european stuff) and film4 stuff. bought Daisies for £7)
(and the '2 for £5 books' also plentiful)
― koogs, Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Fopp in Union St selling the 'shorter' Mark Lewisohn Beatles book for £3
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
Is heavy
But excellent.
― Mark G, Monday, 2 June 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
A rack of WEA Japan CD editions of classic soul and funk albums for £5 a pop. I got Jimmy Castor Bunch's E-Man Groovin', which the guy behind the counter was shocked I'd never heard (of) before.
― Jeff W, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Fopp in Union St selling the Bob Stanley pop book for £3
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Really want to read that, so hope it turns up elsewhere for similar prices. FOPP still doesn't do mailorder does it?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't think so, no (it's such a hefty tome it wld prob cost more than £3 to post it to you). Maybe HMV will get cheap copies, too (in my experience most music books published by Faber tend to get remaindered)?
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
Shit, don't see that Beatles book anywhere at Union st. Will gladly buy the Bob Stanley, though.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, think those Beatles bks flew out. Big stacks of the Stanley today, tho.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Good stuff - gonna try getting one of those on my way home.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
That Beatles book helped me understand why e-readers are so great.
I have the Bob Stanley book already obv, it never left the house for it is big.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
That Beatles book is one for the bathroom. Since just after Christmas, I've started the day with five minutes of the Fab Four's early exploits every morning, and I've still got 200 pages to go.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link