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

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missionary work.

alext (alext), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The Maidenhead Music Zone is going to be a Fopp, there is a piece of paper up in the window to that effect. I am urged to "bear with them" in the meantime.

That bird with the dyed red hair in the TCR shop is a bit arsey when you take stuff back under the popular "suck it and see" policy.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

foppage

to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Ant and Dec "Their Greatest Hits" One Pound. Got it for the kids. Theu kinda like them (a lot) being Geordie lads and all...

Oh, but there are two hits not actually on it. "We're on the ball" being one.

Can you guess which other one?

(Clue: Name a Ant/Dec hit off the top of your head)

Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

KRAZY KATZ

Frogman Henry, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, ooh, let me guess: could it be: "Rip It Up"?
"Tonight I'm Free"?
"Why Me? (Is It Justified)"?
"If I Give You My Number"?
"Eternal Love"?
"Our Radio Rocks"?
"Stuck On U"?
"U Krazy Katz"?
"Perfect"?
"Stepping Stone"?
"Better Watch Out"?
"When I Fall In Love"?
"Shout"?
"Falling"?

Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

(OK, I admit, I may not have actually got every one of those titles off the top of my head)

Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

All on there!

(They be done have had a lotta hits!)

Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Maidenhead Music Zone is going to be a Fopp"

There's a shop in Weymouth which has already been a branch of MVC, a branch of Music Zone and a branch of Fopp so far this year - and it's still only March.

Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

[i]"They be done have had a lotta hits!"[/i}

I missed that crucial word "hits" - how are we defining what constitutes a "hit"?

Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Also currently on offer for a quid: Shut It! Music From The Sweeney and Amazing Grace by Spiritualized.

I still think the latter too expensive.

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Darn! and that's where my other quid went.

thank god I didn't shell out for the 'collector's edition 3 12" singles plus box' version.

Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, i thought that was all one album for a (split) second, and so for an even more splitted second I was interested in Spirtualized for the first time in my life

Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Outkast's Idlewild is already down to a fiver. I should pick it up eh?

Stew, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, Stew, £5 is the most you should expect to pay for anything in Fopp these days. Idlewild'll be on the £3 wall racks sooner rather than later.

Jeff W, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

Today, seen and/or bought!

The Sly/Family Stone remasters = £5

Also, Metal Machine Music = £5

go deh!

Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link

Gah, this thread always resurfaces when I have £0.00

braveclub, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link

The Maidenhead Music Zone/Fopp hybrid has now closed completely.

I would like SHUT IT! for a pound.

PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link

ah right, won't go to Maidenhead then.

I'll be visiting the Fopp in Charing cross on Friday. What's good in there at the mo?

Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (£5).

I don't know if that's a good deal, but I might get it if it's still there next time I go in.

PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Um, today is Friday...

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link

I meant friday next week.

Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link

>> The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (£5).

It is. Get it. I know I will next week!

I wouldn't bother with their other albums though (Bloodbrothers isn't bad but not great either).

Colonel Poo, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Exeter's Musiczone is definitely becoming a Fopp; all the POS stuff has changed, the price points, the silly genre sections, etcetera, just not the sign above the door yet.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

:'( Couldn't find Dictators CD in TCR Fopp...

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I might have been hallucinating. I hallucinated it on their PUNK display rack though. Perhaps it was THE DEAD BOYS.

PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

I have checked though and you can get it for very cheap off the internet if you don't mind waiting for it to come from the colonies.

PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Colonel PoOTM

Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link

They do have Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children CD for a fiver.

Maybe it was on the New York/London wall by the vinyl - there was an empty shelf near Ramones/NY Dolls - could have been there.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Not remotely in the same league as "Go Girl Crazy" however (or even "Young, Loud and Snotty")

Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Younger, Louder and Snottier is best.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link

No Dictators CDs available from online Fopp.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link

I must have been wrong then.

The really cheap one has gone from here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00000253W/ref=dp_olp_2/026-3945335-0330023?ie=UTF8&qid=1180709618&sr=1-1

PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link

I just bought it off Ebay for £4.91 inc shipping! Hurrah for saving 9p!

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link

If you look after the pennies...

I wonder if Mark got anything on Friday.

PJ Miller, Monday, 4 June 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Heh!

No, I had bought more than enuff the previous week.

I did buy the Joe Strummer 'mix' CD, and actually it's fine indeed. But oh NoE!! full price! What am I, mad?

Mark G, Monday, 4 June 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link

The odd full price purchase does the constitution good.

PJ Miller, Monday, 4 June 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link

The Donnas' "Gold Medal" for £3 a week or so ago. Strange because there was an identical copy behind it in the racks for £11. It's OK, but doesn't sound as good as "Spend The Night" to me.

NJH, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"The odd full price purchase does the constitution good."

Right up to the point where you see the same item available at half the price you just paid.

Stewart Osborne, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Nirvana Live Tonight Sold Out DVD for a fiver.

Suicide Why Be Blue and A Way of Life for four pounds each.

This was in Reading. There is a "sale".

PJ Miller, Friday, 15 June 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link

The "sale" is rubbish

Tom D., Saturday, 16 June 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link

They've had those Suicide ones for ages.

I got the first two fora fiver each. The first is U&K, the second is ok for the price, those two I dunno.

Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Robbie Williams mad Rudebox album : £3 (and i'm loving it !)
Prince - 3121 : £3 (not in the mood for this yet - too busy laughing to Robbie)
Emma Bunton - Life in Mono : £3 (filed for a mellow day)
Adam and the Ants boxset : £15 - very tempted by this i have to say ..

hurray for stock clearances

mark e, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, tempted by that Robbie one. The Emma, the kids'd go for. Maybe that antbox. Prince? Still haven't got to that "Emancipation" boxset I got for £3 from Fopp back whenever.

Mark G, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Emmas album is very laid back, 60s styled pop music and rather nice, if a little cheesy, perfect for when your ears need some light easy listening relief, whereas Robbies album is hilarious/offensive - easily worth the 3 coins for the sheer 'WTF!' factor, and the Pet Shop Boys tracks are gorgeous.
still not spun the Prince one ..

mark e, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link

I never understood the criticism that album got which seemed seperate from the usual Williams hate, as if it was much worse than his other albums. It's probably his most interesting record. He did release the absolute worst choice as first single though, that didn't help.

cheasyweasel, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Marketing people should pick up on this generally; there are some albums which you wouldn't mind buying for three quid but would shirk at paying full price or even the £10/11/12 Fopp new release price template, and I think both Rudebox and Life In Mono fit into that category very easily. They probably would have ended up selling more copies as well.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Indeed, if Fopp sales qualified for the chart, Rob'd be outselling TakeThat now.

Mark G, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Fopp going into liquidation rumours, anyone?

aldo, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Overstretch?

Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link


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