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

Has FOPP been picking up the Zappa reissues? Been wondering, just in case I get to be near one in the foreseeable future.

Last time I was there, no.

Glasgow Union Street branch had a copy of each Zappa last time I was in.

but pricewise?

Full price. £10-£14 or something.

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.

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.

That double Beta Band double DVD was just purchased for a mere £3.

The Delta Band's double DVD?

for a quarter of the price

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...

Yeah, saw those in Reading branch too.

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.

Anything particularly interesting in the Waterstones remainders section, if you visited?

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.

They look great! Thanks.

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.

today i grabbed :

iamamiwhoiam : kin
salem : king night
abc - zillionaire (expanded reissue)
mark stewart - exorcism of envy
pepe deluxe - queen of the wave
tangerine dream - ricochet
tangerine dream - encore
tangerine dream - stratosphere

for a wallet busting £20.

well chuffed.

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)

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

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 ..

Fopp Byres Rd also had some nice Japanese jazz reissues w/ obi strips for £3-5.

We really missed an opportunity to call this the Rolling Fopping Thread. Mark G I think you should make a requests to the mods!

It was a different time.

And no, I don't reply within seconds to every shout-out..

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..

And no, I don't reply within seconds to every shout-out..

Aye, you're slipping!

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?

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)

Fopp in Union St selling the 'shorter' Mark Lewisohn Beatles book for £3

Is heavy

But excellent.

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.

Fopp in Union St selling the Bob Stanley pop book for £3

Really want to read that, so hope it turns up elsewhere for similar prices. FOPP still doesn't do mailorder does it?

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)?

Shit, don't see that Beatles book anywhere at Union st. Will gladly buy the Bob Stanley, though.

Yeah, think those Beatles bks flew out. Big stacks of the Stanley today, tho.

Good stuff - gonna try getting one of those on my way home.

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.

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.

That is a lot of toilet paper.

Thanks for the tip-off. Bob Stanley's book duly purchased. They were also selling Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise for a fiver, but I didn't want to be carrying around two weighty tomes in this heat.

surprised to see so much vinyl in the Union Street one today (dunno when the last time I was in was), v surprised to see that a good deal of it was classic blues and jazz (Muddy Waters, Sonny Rollins, early Coltrane) on vinyl at ridiculously low prices - a lot at £8, some even at £3. What's the deal with them? Are 'Studio Media' and 'Vinylogy.ru' (maybe there were others too) perhaps not the most legit of labels?

is the Bob Stanley book good? I was already buying Lloyd Bradley's Bass Culture today and one big fat book was enough for now, but I may pop back in on Thursday...

They've been doing the cheaper jazz vinyl for a while. That's what I remember Fopp being great for back in the mid to late 90s. They seem to have got some new stuff in, but I didn't know about the £3 stuff. Getting in aboot that.
Only dipped into the Bob Stanley, but it looks great. I've always liked his writing and the scope of it is fantastic.

Isn't it just the sad truth that large swathes of the jazz back catalogue are p much worthless, these days - certainly on CD - and lots of it is now out of copyright in britain, so w/ no royalties to pay, i guess it's possible to punt out blue note etc albs p cheaply - only way to sell em (obv this is no comment on their quality)

and the bob stanley bk is at least worth £3 i wld say

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, June 17, 2014 2:21 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks for response. a new branch of HMV just opened in Galway almost directly opposite where it used to be before the company went under. They have some interesting stuff in but I haven't seen any books yet. Hope it's early days and this will appear. The old shop used to have a load of books turning up at considerably cut price.

Fopp Union street had a good chunk of the Greil Marcus back catalogue in - Mystery Train et al £3, Lipstick Traces at £5. No In The Fascist Bathroom though (I've got it, but it's got some of his sharpest stuff. Deserves to be more widely available).

got the Bob Stanley book and read the first few chapters on the train down, v pleased I made the purchase. Makes me want to listen to everything he praises, even the songs I've heard hundreds of times as sonic wallpaper.

The Bob Stanley book is good, yes. I am surprised it is so cheap so quickly. Ditto The Beatles book, I suppose. OK, ditto all books.

I got the Beck Odelay deluxe for a fiver (from Fnac, not Fopp) and it has one of those Aphex Twin pisstake mixes on it. It is not worth the while, the deluxe edition, I don't think.

I also got McCartney and McCartney II for a fiver each, in their 2CD versions. The packaging is very nice, and there are live tracks from Glasgow 1979, which must have been the bizz.