― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff W, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
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
HMV are having a bit of a DVD chuckout sale: MIB box (2 films, 4 discs) £3.
They said they had Clockwork Orange for £3 also, but I found none save the £10 ones.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
just came on to post this too - cheap stuff, even cheaper!
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
According to someone on the DiS boards there are three current theories amongst staff:
* closing down all but the top 40 performing stores. * someone is buying out the bigger ones and they're closing down the smaller ones * closing all of them
However:
But a girl who works in Fopp Truro just rang my boyfriend, who sells his band's CDs in there, to tell him to come and pick them up cos they're closing down! So from the horse's mouth, Fopp = dead...
Some other quotes/speculation:
someone on my other forum who has connections in the music world: "I'm being told by more than one source that Fopp have gone bust after being cut off by their distributors. It seems all stores are closed today."
someone else says "There are reports saying it's all one big stock take but it seems unlikely. Apparently they will all be open for trade again tomorrow."
A friend of mine who is in the music retail business in Scotland has given a pretty full picture of this but remember that NONE OF THIS IS CONFIRMED. It seems that Fopp wanted to buy Music Zone for a while knowing that they were in trouble. They waited until Music Zone went bust so that they would get all the stock cheap - the bust "Music Zone" being the debtor rather than the newly formed "MZ 2007" set up by Fopp. The distributors disagreed and billed Fopp for stock not yet paid up by Music Zone, claiming that Fopp were now responsible for all debts. Fopp refused to pay. The distributors cut Fopp off, refusing them restocks and new releases. It is being reported that they declared voluntary bankruptcy yesterday.
I'm now hearing that the company's auditors were instructed to undertake an immediate full stocktake as a consequnce of the ongoing dispute over Music Zone's stocks and that all stores are expected to be open tomorrow. Whether or not they are bankrupt is not yet confirmed.
― aldo, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a bit sad, I feel like me and Fopp grew up together!
― Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
... still down there tomorrow to pick over the corpse! Luvvly!
― Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel obliged to say:
Noooo... THEY BE TAKING MY FOPP AWAY!!!!
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Monsieur Fopp, Monsieur Fopp Is it true what mummy says You won't come back Oh no-oh no-oh no"
― Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i know fopp is dead - long live fopp!
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Q: which one ?
was it an ex Music Zone / MVC store
― djmartian, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I was in Glasgow yesterday and didn't even go to fopp after I spent all my money in Monorailmusic.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
No wonder they went out of business! The amount you spend on CDs!
― Tom D., Friday, 22 June 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link