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

nah the edinburgh fopp does (or did).

>> what no-one has mentioned yet is that the TCR Fopp serves BEER. is this a UK first for record shops?

WTF??

We could have a TCR Fopp FAP!

There is nothing more depressing than buying records drunk.

that is so true.

I'm off to London town next week, I am going to investigate this beer serving recrod shop, seeing as I'll be in the russell sq area, shouldn't be too far. Is it far up TCR? (my knowledge of said area extends to the Odeon).

a bit past the odeon, probably like parallel with russell sq.

Buying records drunk may be bad (I'm not sure it's such a crime), but buying records tipsy = k-classic. Watch those inhibitions tumble!

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

I remember being in a record shop (in berlin I think, but I'm not sure) that had a café/bar, listening stations and loads of magazines lying around. Big comfy sofas, sort of a living room ambience. Twas pretty cool as far as I remember, looked like there was a regular after work small crowd that hung around and the shop probably made more off beer than records. In fact I'm sure I was in a similar type place in Helsinki near the train station that was primarily a bar but also sold records. That place might have been attached to a club, I just remember a lot of good looking Finns and lots of beer. All these memories are verrrryy hazy.

When I went to Edinburgh the other day my girlfriend steered me away from Cockburn St cos she worried I'd spend too much. Then she left me alone for half an hour on Princes St, during which time I managed to spend £45 in Rose St.

saint etienne's finistere for £3 is a bit of a bargain, ditto the knife's deep cuts (with dvd) for £5

>> ditto the knife's deep cuts (with dvd) for £5

Ooh! I want this. OK I know where I'm going tomorrow lunchtime.

i never know where to find stuff!!!! i might get ver knife too, for the missus. filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?

I think I've got the measure of the TCR shop now, it's no longer quite so daunting. Was served "the best cappuccino I've ever made" by a nice young lady downstairs. Blew £26 on...

New Rotary Connection: Hey Love (vinyl)
Mia Doi Todd: Manzanita
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season
Yves Montand: Car J T'aime
La Jetée/Sans Soleil (dvd)

that's a nice selection!

filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?

filed under £5. but dance too i thnk.

I do wonder if the "shop around for a better price" thing is a deliberate ploy by Fopp to keep you in there longer rather than incompetence. The now famous 50p Spiritualized album was available (in its plain jewel-case form, rather the slipcase that they were practically giving away) for £7 in the Modern rock A-Z section! The Beth Gibbons record above was on display in Best Sellers for £6 but was a pound cheaper in the alphabetised section.

I still haven't really touched on the classical and jazz sections.

I got the Knife albums (silent shout was a tenner) in Edinburgh: on the wall with the other cheapo dance stuff.

casual grime fans may want 'run the road' at £3. i couldn't summon up the curiosity.

i got der knife too!

How bad/good is that Blak Twang record (The Rotten Club)? It's only a pound in Fopp. I have liked some Blak Twang in my time.

I couldn't find the Knife yesterday :'(

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.

I had good luck sifting through the reggae section for £1 goodies: a couple of the Perry CDs dadaismus mentions above, a Tubbys / Jah Thomas / Roots Radics dub doings, a Joe Gibbs rocksteady comp.

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.)

I always see that Horace Andy thing and never buy it. Missed the Joe Gibbs one.

It ("The Reggae Train") was there as of 7pm last night dada, but mis-filed (somewhere around the Ps or Rs I would guess, but I forget). It's kinda purple.

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.

How come Michael always gets served "the best cup of cappuccino" lovley girls have ever made?

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.

You should try listening to him.

(Start by downloading the marvellous "As Good As I Once Was".)

Is it about his "prowess"?

Yes.

(By my previous post, I meant "he sounds even more "squeal piggy squeal" than he looks" but that mayn't have been clear.)

Is this Toby Keith as responsible for 'I Love this Bar' and 'Whisky Girl' because those two songs alone = k-classic.

Sounds right, though I don't know those two songs.

Hurrah! I went back today and found the Knife in the electronica section out the back! I also got these for a fiver: Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele, Mudhoney - My Brother The Cow, Killing Joke - s/t. Plus the double CD of the Fall - Live at the Witch Trials for £7. Bargains galore!

Attention Dr C: Vital Dub - Well Charged @ 5 pounds in TCR Fopp, in the back room where da reggae be.

Attention everyone else: Joe Meek Portrait of a Legend 4 CD boxset @ 10 pounds.

are those japanese eds of kate bush remastered? or do people just like exotic packaging?

Kate Bush is exotic packaging.

xpost. Thanks PJM. I need to visit the new Fopp soon.

The Joe Meek box is an absolute must at £10. I think I paid about 17 on Amazon a while back. You haven't lived until you've heard JM sing on the Telstar demo. The booklet is absolutely amazing too.

Didn't find the Joe Meek box gdamna.

Did find a "Primal Scream Live" CD for a tenner, jap import. (Recentish, has Autobahn 66 on it).

I didn't get it, but isn't someone here a PS nut?

Anyone spot the Joe Meek box in the Fopp up on Union Street (Glasca)?
Might take a trip over there after work if it's there.

nick southall recommends that primal scream ting, i think.

There were three Meek boxes on Saturday morning on Tottenham Court Road, by the tills, in the piles of cheapo stuff. I suppose they all went to people like me, who spotted them after paying for something else. On the other hand, they might have a warehouse full of them.

They have a lot of nice jazz compilations going for three quid, as lonmg as you don't mind them being called Legends of Acid Jazz or Heroes of the Hammond.

Well, the OGWT DVD took a while to go to £5 when it was mentioned upthread.

Guess I'll have to keep walking over to the further end of town, lunchtimes...

I asked today, they reckoned they had a buy in of around 1,000 and they all gorn now.

i am envious of mr millers joe meek box set, yes, it has been on my amazon wishlist since picking up that £3 comp in hmv basement last year. i wonder if the further outposts, like chiswick, still have them...

or i could stick to buying 10p cd singles off ebay...

I've gotta have that Joe Meek box!

hmm, got to have the joe meek too though didn't spot it in Edinburgh this afternoon. They did have Spiderman and Spiderman 2 double DVD's for £3 each though. Not that I bought those, got a Fania label sampler for £3 instead.

I feel quite guilty about having one now.

Best of Syd Barrett 3.97 in Music Zone. Dafty here paid much more.

That the one with "Bob Dylan Blues"?

Good old Napster of olden times, I say.

Most of the Slayer back catalog is £5 now.

Yes, that one.

Who has the Rolling Stones "classic 60s recordings" cheapest? 7.97 is pushing it a bit at Music Zone.

I may venture into Reading tomorrow morning, with my daughter.

Warning: absolutely not Fopp at all... but as this is sort of the bargain thread, certain folks might want to note that Amazon currently have Basil Kirchin's Abstractions of the Industrial North on vinyl for £2.96. Also, Davey Graham's Midnight Man on CD for £3.96. Dunno what else, got cheesed off with looking. Anyone know what that Graham disc is like?

Also this

...and all I went there for was a field guide to mushrooms.

Death Row Records Greatest Hits Vols 1 & 2 (4 CDs) for a fiver in Reading. I went looking for Rolling Stones &0s albums cheap, but they were not cheap. but Hot Rocks 1 & 2 were, so I go those instead. The remastering is very good indeed, I may need to upgrade my others.

CCR - Born On the Bayou (£3)