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

Well it is Chiswick.

Sister Ray had money off everything at the weekend - 30% off CDs, 40% off DVDs - but only for two days. I don't know if they will do it again. Seems likely. I couldn't find anything I wanted.

Sister Ray policy = "we want indiscriminate tourists buying what they heard on xfm this morning for a fiver serious people fuck off to webbyland kthnxbye"

I've passed that Dada shop on the bus but not gone in on basis (a) "anyone who says they're mad isn't" shop name and (b) vast Moody Blues display espiable inside.

> a few hundred yards down the street from the former branch of Fopp.

down the street in which direction? hammersmith way? (i work between the two, a few hundred yards this way would make it walkable in a lunchtime...)

down the street in which direction? hammersmith way?
No, heading away from Hammersmith. It's in that block just up from Sainsbury's. About next door but one or two from the Cancer Research shop.

The CR shop from experience usually has a better stock of music.

Yesterday I broke my £3 rule to buy :

Roman Polanski 4 DVD box set (£7)
Satantango 3 DVD set (£13)
Satyajit Ray - The Apu Trilogy 3 DVD set (£18)

Now I just need to find 20 spare hours to watch it all, maybe some time next year...

i still think £8 for the Moodysson box set (Fucking Amal, Together, Lilya 4-Eva, Hole in My Heart) is a pretty kick-ass deal.

Not Fopp, but HMV (!)

As part of their "sale", they have miniboxsets of Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, to name but two, their first five albums for £14.

I did see Joe Satriani and Santana in a similar package, but has anyone else seen who else of interest are being done like this?

Fopp do have those as well, at least the Lou Reed one.

Fopp had a load of Byrds, Bob Dylan, Blue Oyster Cult, Beefheart etc CDs for £3 last time I went in there.

Yeah, finished up my Beefheart 'official' collection with "Bluejeans/Moonbeams" a while ago.

It's not "baaaad" as such, but I can see why people got disappointed.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vnH1Bh8fL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

^^^^^ this is worth picking up from Fopp for a fiver - they had piles of them last time I was there.

Of course, Monsieur le Zavvi is not spoiling us at all: in receivership, stock reduced in price by 10%, and not accepting any Zavvi gift vouchers.

Not that I have any, but I sympathise...

"Not Fopp, but HMV (!)

As part of their "sale", they have miniboxsets of Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, to name but two, their first five albums for £14."

11.99 on the website.

has anyone else seen who else of interest are being done like this?

Mark, do a search using "Original Album Classics: 5cd" on the HMV website. Quite tempted to get Jefferson Airplane and Blue Oyster Cult sets to replace my vinyl. Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Sonny Rollins sets too. Am hugely boggled by the existence of the Big Audio Dynamite one though.

I see hmv.com have that 6-disc box of Fall BBC sessions for £12, too. Pretty tempting but am I really going to sit down and listen to all that?

Was hoping for a 5-CD Mingus set but no luck. Still, Reed would be worth a go if I didn't have three of them already (though only one on CD, so maybe it still is), and the Mahavishnu one sounds worth a punt. Cheers!

(Got a bit pissed off with the HMV website last time I ordered from them, but it was sorted out after I wrote an angry email, and I did get an HMV voucher for Christmas)

Get that Fall box set, it's ace!

cf: Oh! The Fall John Peel Sessions box set! OH! you guys.

I had an eyeball through the boxes on view: others not mentioned = Steve Vai, Elvis, and Agnetha Falkskog...

I saw the BoC set, not me.

(fwiw, got the Lou and Patti sets)

Big audio Dynamite?

I'm there.

(reads the Fall thread) OK, sold! By which I mean, it'd better still be available by the time I get home, as that is where my HMV voucher is, which I'm hoping has some kind of type-into-website code.

There is a Fopp ad in the front of the new Plan B, which surprised me a bit given their implosion, and now just makes me jealous that I don't live within 50 miles of one. But it's an ad for new-and-forthcoming indie releases at sliver-below-RRP prices rather than the real cheapies that this thread is for, so, carry on.

I went into Woolies in Hamilton today. They're selling packs of 5 cds for a fiver. Some good stuff mixed in with shite. I bought 2 packs.
Got Portishead - Third, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, 2 Metallica cds and some other stuff like huey lewis,status quo(which i gave to my mate), tony christie (which i gave to my dad) . If I had been in earlier I expect there wouldve been even better stuff. but i was quite pleased to finally get the Portishead cd.

Woolies closes forever tomorrow evening they said.

yeah, same as the Reading one.

the woolies most local to me has already gone.
completely stripped bare according to my spies, aka wife + kids, with little evidence of the shop ever existing.

oh and there was a John legend cd in the pack too

Rdg one closed/ing today

At the mo, got at 80% off...

DVD
Rolling Stones R&R Circus £3.20
Take That Ult Tour £3.20
Sugababes Overloaded £1.40
McFly all the greatest £3.20
Charlatans £1.20
Futurama Series 3 set £7.00

CDs
22 Dreams £2.30
Shine a light £2.30
Third Portishead £2.30
Revolutions 2CD various £3.20
Plant/Krause £2.30

Game nintendo
Amereica's neext top model £5.20

Zipper Tags, personalised w/ Amber and Alice, 20p each.

Not too bad. Really pleased about the R&R Circus one.

As part of their "sale", they have miniboxsets of Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, to name but two, their first five albums for £14

And Poco. If you like country rock, like what I do. Got Martin Carthy's "Shearwater" for £2 in Fopp in Glasgow and boxset of Herzog films for £12. Back in London, picked up "Mingus Ah Um" and "1000 Volts of Holt" (2cd version) for £3 each

Game nintendo
Amereica's neext top model £5.20

this is the worst game ever, I hear.

I walked straight past the Glasgow Woolies on Sunday, I don't know why. BAH. But just before that I got David Toop's 'Haunted Weather' and Alasdair Gray's 'Old Men in Love' (hardcover) for £2 each from Fopp, so heeeeey.

Zavvi watch continues... same 10% discount no new offers bah.

Got Manhunt 2 for Wii for £17.99 which is the cheapest I've seen it anywhere but not a bargain by any standards.

I notice that most of the classical stock in Zavvi has gone, don't know where though

my visit to Zavvi left me wondering why £6 is a suitable "clearout" price for a £9 book.

I bought Spiderman 3 in Zavvi at the weekend. Picked up a £4.99 copy, while standing at the checkout I noticed a £3.99 stickered copy by the till. Swopped them, and it scanned through as £1.60. Bargain.

Worst thing about traipsing round these shops that are either going about of business or about to go out of business is that, due to the very stock policies that put them out of business in the first place, there's nothing much to buy. So there's 10 million copies of the Zutons' 2nd album which they ordered, which people probably bought in Tescos anyway, instead of ordering like 2 copies of a Cecil Taylor album or whatever

That Woolworths in Reading has about 100 copies of Cliff Richard's book "My life, my way" for £3.00

Oh, and about the same number of "Concert for Diana" DVDs.

Into Woolworths for the last time today. Piles of some Paul McCartney album, priced all over the place from £6 down to 60p. The old photo on the front seemed fitting, somehow. So I took it to the till and it scanned at 20p. The shop that just keeps on giving.

there is a great new shop on chiswick high road called dada. It sells great cd's really cheap and they have a great selection of dvd's. HMV is a rip off. I went in there and asked their staff for help and they shrugged and got back to their conversation.

Arctic Monkeys fans : both CDs for £1 each in Fopp the other day! Although for the same money you could buy either Dog Of Two Head by Status Quo or the self-titled Angel Witch album. The choice is yours!

Damn, that Fall box set on HMV.com seems to have been bumped up to full price again. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Did anyone see those Trojan vinyl box sets going for 2 quid each (!!) in the Covent Gdn Fopp just before Christmas? Absolutely ridiculous. I bagged about 5 of them and I haven't even got a record player at the moment.

Fab to know that Arctic Monkeys are finally being sold at the right price.

I bought the 5CD Lou Reed box and boy, was that worth it! Terrific series of musical encounters, journey through the 1970s.

how much for that pinefox? is that the one in the long box?

just a wee box, £15, the 1970s LPs. It's smashing.

jed, check amazon.co.uk, they have the same sets there (there are 20 or so 5cd sets for different artists)

a Kate Bush one would be a beautiful thing

cheers fox and koogs

3 cd herbie hancock boxset : head hunters/sextant/thrust (reissues) - a mere £6.

sorry zavvi, but you're nowhere near that level of VFM.

Did you buy Lou, Jed?

Don't like Dada, I'm afraid - it's like a KKK version of Fopp for Fifty Quid Hornby Man with lots of old stuff but no hip hop, R&B or dancehall whatsoever because wealthy white leather jacketed residents of Chiswick clearly have no stomach for that king of thing.