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
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Amazing Grace is £7 in glasgow.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
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).
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
not always, no. and the thing they were trying to be was merseybeat era beatles. (track i'm thinking of is Knickerbockers : 'Lies')
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― bham (bham), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
WTF??
We could have a TCR Fopp FAP!
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Edinburgh Fopp no longer serves beer. It was a rubbish idea.
― alext (alext), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― dh (djh), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Ooh! I want this. OK I know where I'm going tomorrow lunchtime.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
New Rotary Connection: Hey Love (vinyl)Mia Doi Todd: ManzanitaBeth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of SeasonYves Montand: Car J T'aimeLa Jetée/Sans Soleil (dvd)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?
filed under £5. but dance too i thnk.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I still haven't really touched on the classical and jazz sections.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i got der knife too!
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I was only in Fopp for about 10 mins though cos I had to go to the post office & bank first and used up most of my lunch hour doing that. I did see a whole load of other great albums for a fiver though, such as Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance & Overkill by Motorhead.
Metalheads may also be interested in Black Metal by Venom for £1!!!! Pity I just bought the fucking thing from Sister Ray for £5.99, dammit.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Also the Taxi comp on Pressure Sounds for £3, and that Waylon Jennings twofer fer three too.
Plus a dodgy-as-hell Toby Keith LP for a fiver, but you don't want to know about that.
(The Horace Andy CD which they have tons of for £1, "You Are My Angel", ia a real winner by the way, one of his very best. Also aces is the Joe Gibbs comp called "The Reggae Train" and that's only £3. (The latter is an LP which I strongly suspect Mark E Smith of owning: within a couple of years of its release The Fall had covered "People Grudgeful" and "Kimble". What a great record.) I don't have that Blak Twang LP and don't much fancy it.)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link
The one I bought last night was a Trojan reissue of two old comps ("Jackpot of Hits - Explosive Rocksteady" and another with a similar name) and looks nasty and cheap, so suits me very well.
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I like Hey Love if New Rotary Connection is the same as old Rotary Connection.
I think Car means But.
Toby Keith looks a bit "squeal, piggy, squeal" to me.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link
(Start by downloading the marvellous "As Good As I Once Was".)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
(By my previous post, I meant "he sounds even more "squeal piggy squeal" than he looks" but that mayn't have been clear.)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link