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

I think they must have sold them all, I looked upstairs and ground floor.

They're punk rock daft, them kids

didn't see any of those punk sets in the bristol, though i wasn't really looking to be honest.
there were lots (LOTS) of copies of the amy winehouse 4 cd boxset (4 cds ?) for a mere £4.

I think the problem with that set was that the 2CD sets had been bought individually already by those that might have wanted it.

I got all the £3 Can albums (5 in total); even though they aren't the remasters, I couldn't resist. Also got a Carter Family 2CD for £3 and Miles Davis "Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time" 2CD for £6.

I got a Black Oak Arkansas 2CD compilation for £5! Carry on...

Clancy Eccles 2cd anthology + Ranking Joe's "Dub It In a Dance", £3 each. Could have got more, but wasn't in a buying mood.

decided it was time to fill out my meagre Trojan collection.
so, got all 5 volumes of the "Tighten Up" series (2002 expanded editions).
may go back on friday for more, if there is anything left by then.

Shut It! Music from the Sweeney CD + a Hot Butter comp CD + a Colissem II 2CD thing + the Rush R30 2DVD+2CD box set, all for £3 (from Cambridge Circus)

The shop was pretty busy last night too; the box sets on special offer seemed to be flying off the shelves.

New Boots & Panties, Kill 'em All, Never Say Die, Sweet 2cd anthology, Steeleye Span - 10 Man Mop 2cd expanded - all £3
Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump - £5
That Sun Records 8cd + 7" thing - £15
and the crowning glory - Uriah Heep : You Can't Keep A Good Band Down (first 7 albums in cd replica sleeves + box) - £5

Happy birthday to me! 41 today and I spent £40 - the only way of making it £41 I could see was some Kooks album or something, so no.

Three quidders:

Johnny Guitar Watson - 3CD anthology (yowzah!)
Steeleye Span - Ten Man Mop (2CD edition)

Both Sanctuary, so hopefully other Steeleye + folk stuff available

Sun Ra, "Space is the Place" DVD, £4

Hmm, what else? (Might be passing tomorrow)

Definitely worth popping in

oh boo I won't be around for ages. Last time I was there there were a surprising number of decent books for £2, I got myself a couple of Virginia Woolf novels, a Hemingway one, and some hardback collection of Jonathan Franzen essays at that price. There seems to be more in the way of the very very cheap than there used to be.

I'd be up for Franzen at cheap, but all the bargain books in our city centre branch are a bit rubbish to my mind.

Well, a bit light this time. Mind you, last time was sensational! (See upthread)

Anyway, settled for
"Right time, wrong speed" the John Peel 2CD, £5
"Tomorrow" (Keith West, Mark Wirtz,etc) £7

Happy with that.

Recently: the 4th, 5th and 6th Byrds LPs, remastered and extended, in a CD box, for ... £4.

Got the Complete Jack Johnson sessions box for £25, which I was pretty pleased about.

lucky git. any left?

I bought it on Friday afternoon, they had about 10-15 copies or so then. I reckon they'll still have a bunch.

Also got the Seven Steps Complete Columbia Recording 63-64 box in that series for £22. Both are the short metal-case versions.

I got that Byrds 3-CD box for £4 yesterday, and a 4-CD Sugar Hill Records box set for £5.

They also had Chemical Chords by Stereolab for £4.

I got a bunch of £2 books as well, including that Franzen memoir that I was bemoaning Glasgow's lack of just above. A successful Friday lunchtime shopping trip indeed.

Hm, I've just remembered that I bought that Franzen book 2 weeks ago, and I've no idea what I've done with it. Slightly annoyed that I bought Songs in A&E for not much money due to being a sad completist, and then saw the fancy book edition for not much money a week later. Not that much of a sad completist that I'll actually buy it again.

I had to check that the Complete Jack Johnson sessions box wasn't some sort of Jack Johnson sessions box. Could be confusing.

I still look for that I Wanna Punk Rock box set every time I go in there :'(

They had so many copies of that for a while it was ridiculous. Stacked everywhere... [rubs salt in the wound]... sorry... ;-)

Fopp seems to have a lot of decent miles at the moment. 3CD set with My Funny Valentine, Milestones and something else for £4. Already got Milestones on vinyl, but I think I'll pick up the set for the other stuff. Can't really go wrong. Nice digi-pack of In A Silent Way for £3 too.
I did pick up the excellent (at least I remember it being excellent) C4 documentary, the Miles Davis Story, for £3 in Byre's Rd yesterday. 2+ hours long. C4 aired it maybe about 6-7 years ago over Easter? The sort of thing C4 just don't do anymore, more's the pity. Lots of amazing footage if I recall. Some really wild electric Miles footage, Keith Jarrett wigging out on electric piano. And unlike most jazz docs, I don't recall it having Stanley Crouch cropping up to denounce the post-Ayler continuum. Looking forward to watching it again.

About a month ago, they had that Dylan "Tell Tale Signs" 3CD deluxe box (£120 'normally') for £35, but I hesitated and the next day it was gone.

Anyroad, it's on the HMV website for £39, if yr interested.

Aye, heard about that from a few folks. Still crazy bargains occasionally.

in fact I bought it sort-of by accident, as I had forgotten I was still holding it when I went to the till.

Best Fopp story ever!

Not music, but Lust, Caution DVD is only £2 at the moment

Passing tomorrow.

On list: Big Star, George's "Wonderwall" OST. (unlikely, that last one)

Marx Brothers, boxset (Animal Crackers/ Monkey Business/ Horse Feathers/ Duck Soup) for £6 <------ bought this

Monty Python, Series 1 and 2 - £3 each <------ prob. will buy these

in fact I bought it sort-of by accident, as I had forgotten I was still holding it when I went to the till.

Best Fopp story ever!

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Funnily enough, this time I bought "Delay 68" Can, £3, and this time it was the remaster!

The 2006 remaster of Wire's 'Pink Flag', £3 in the Covent Garden Fopp on Saturday.

frank sinatra + count basie : live at the sands - £3
goldfrapp : we are glitter (US remix album) - £2
death before distemper (DC Recordings compilation) - £3

not had time to get past live at the sands album yet as thats just too damn good.

I don't want to cause a big sensation, but today Fopp Cov Gdn had Can Soundtracks remaster for either £4 or £3.

I see from the above that this news is not as exciting as I thought, and I need not have rushed home especially to post it.

Also the one with a spanner on the cover.

Many other crazy bargains, but I got The Billy Childish Story instead.

They had run out of Kenny Everett DVDs.

Another thing - your foreigner, when he goes into Fopp, laughs and laughs at the prices of things.

I got the Soundtracks for £5 and the rite time & flow motion for £7 in the glasgow fopp.

Its annoying as its opened up the Pokemon style " gotta catch em all" obsession for me.

xpost Hmm I want that Billy Childish Story - how much was it? 'Soundtracks' is possibly my favourite Can album...sometimes.

It's good to know that you're still frequenting FOPP, PJM!

Billy Childish was £13, which is, as far as I can see, full price. 51 tracks, mind.

Now that Fopp is less of a regular thing it tends to blow my mind and quite often I come out with nothing.

On one memorable occasion a few months ago I went in with The Pinefox and he knocked stuff off the shelves with his rucksack and the security man told him off and I pretended not to know him.

i got can soundtracks remaster for pennies in cambridge... they also had 'unlimited edition' which was a pain coz i paid full whack for it last year.

"Soon Over Babaluma" £3
"Climate of Hunter" £3

are these Can reissues the SACD ones?

and which Fopp?

the covent garden one only has: rite time, flow motion, soundtracks & Can.

Its getting harder and harder to find the curvey CD case ones in the shops

Yes. Covent Garden. It did have "Babaluma", must have been a sudden outburst of good taste among customers

I got "Delay 1968" there. Yes, the SACD one.

So Exeter HMV is moving to the (much larger) premises vacated by Zavvi, and Fopp is moving in to the old HMV. Which is about 400 yards from my house. Hooray? Hooray!

I'm actually glad I have to make an effort to get to Fopp, if it was on my doorstep it'd be like an alcoholic living above a pub.

I've always lived or worked near a Fopp, and you just go into a deeper level of stingyness, where you wait till everything is £3 before you buy it, where once you're breaking point was £5.

you also learn to read deeper meanings into its seasonal / generational shifts. Like people who can read the stockmarket, you can read the placement and price of CDs on Fopps shelves and extrapolate enough data for 100 articles in OMM.

cambridge branch has recently lost shelf space to what looks to be some kind of ipod port. fuck that.