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

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 ?

but i could have got last year's time out film guide for a tenner, which i will do, at some point.

Output is gone...

- most of the Output Recordings catalogue is now a £3 special !

£3 and a bargain!

FOPP BUY 67 MUSIC ZONE STORES
Well, a bit of good news from the world of music retail. Glasgow based Fopp yesterday announced it was buying 67 of the stores formerly owned by its rival Music Zone, making them, over night, the biggest independent music retailer in the UK.

As previously reported, Music Zone went into administration earlier this year, and formally closed down the whole of its 100+ chain on 25 Jan after a buyer for the company could not be found. Fopp will now take on 67 of Music Zone's stores, saving some 775 jobs that had been lost when Music Zone ceased trading. The deal sees Fopp triple the size of its UK wide empire, going from 35 stores to over 100.

Confirming the deal, Music Zone's administrator, Bill Dawson of Deloitte, told reporters: "We are pleased with the disposal to Fopp, and wish them every success in the future. This represents a much better outcome for creditors and other stakeholders than a piecemeal disposal".

source:
http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/daily/index.html

Fopp previously had 35 stores + 67 acquired Music Zone store locations = 102 stores

Fopp Shops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fopp_%28retailer%29

if Fopp can have shops in smaller towns such as Andover, Bedford, Horsham why not Maidenhead?

46 + 67 = 113 stores

If there isn't a Fopp Shop already there = likely to become a Fopp

I think Fopp have their admin offices above the Chiswick branch. Not sure if that makes it more or less likely that they will relocate.

= more work for the Sign Makers !

There's a very shut MVC here.

Guess it's not going to be a Fopp in the next 3 days.

Maidenhead = small town, hip motherfucker population = 1 (me)

Hang on, I'm forgetting to factor in DVD sales.

Where's my board rubber?

Maidenhead = small town, DVD buying population = several million, including Rolf Harris and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

QED. I shall start camping out now.

They are going to get so sick of me.