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

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

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)

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

filed under £5. but dance too i thnk.

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

i got der knife too!

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

Good old Napster of olden times, I say.

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.

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

Better check the Reading one.

a day in mourning/celebration for Tower Records perhaps ?