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

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

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

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.

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

Younger, Louder and Snottier is best.

No Dictators CDs available from online Fopp.

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

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

If you look after the pennies...

I wonder if Mark got anything on Friday.

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?

The odd full price purchase does the constitution good.

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.

"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.

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".

The "sale" is rubbish

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.

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

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.

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 ..

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.

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.

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

Fopp going into liquidation rumours, anyone?

Overstretch?

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.

Fopp going into liquidation rumours, anyone?

just came on to post this too - cheap stuff, even cheaper!

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.

This is a bit sad, I feel like me and Fopp grew up together!

... still down there tomorrow to pick over the corpse! Luvvly!

I feel obliged to say:

Noooo... THEY BE TAKING MY FOPP AWAY!!!!

"Monsieur Fopp, Monsieur Fopp
Is it true what mummy says
You won't come back
Oh no-oh no-oh no"

i know fopp is dead - long live fopp!

I feel obliged to say:

Noooo... THEY BE TAKING MY FOPP AWAY!!!!

Q: which one ?

was it an ex Music Zone / MVC store

I was in Glasgow yesterday and didn't even go to fopp after I spent all my money in Monorailmusic.

No wonder they went out of business! The amount you spend on CDs!

A4 sheet on the door of the Glasgow Fopp says "Closed for stock taking"

Where they takin it?

When Quique was reissued I went into Fopp and I asked the staff when I couldn't find it (because I'm never really sure what section anything will be in there) and they said "er, no, and we can't order it because we're having trouble with distributors... (looks on computer) oh no, wait, they're with the one distribution company that's still ok, we probably could."

I've heard enough grumbling about music distros that I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I've read this news...

Maybe it's hypocritical to be sad at Fopp going because when they opened here (only last year) I was annoyed that the independent shops would have to close and they did, but I'd take a Fopp over not having anywhere except HMV and Virgin, which is what Oxford will have by the end of the year.

Any point in my going to the TCR one in about an hour's time or is that closed for stock taking as well?

Checked elsewhere and TCR is shut for "stock taking" although there appears to be little stock taking going on and quite a lot of plastic crates in situ.

same situation in Bristol ..

the stock-taking is apparently to see what assets they have, if they are bankrupt or not.

i remember the day i fell in love with fopp. in HMV in Union Street in Glasgow i'd found Deserters Songs - but it was £17.99! I really wanted it but thought I'd try the NKOTB across the road, where I found it for £7, and a whole load of other treasures besides

i blame amazon marketplace for taking my eye off the ball :(

I got vouchers for Father's Day :-(

Having said that, on Monday they were having a "warehouse clearance" so perhaps that will continue until their warehouse is cleared.

It would be good to know for sure if they're going to be open tomorrow so that I can use my vouchers, so if anyone knows...

Griff Rhy Jones was in buying cheapo DVDS on Monday, perhaps he had insider information.

Apparently Fopp has been having distro problems for a while. The manager of a certain rubbish Glasgow rock trio whose name rhymes with Whiffy Spiro apparently went into one of the Glasgow stores and had a go at the manager as there were no copies available in the two Fopps. Not the staff's fault of course - the distro had refused to send it out.

I bet HMV and co will be delighted if FOPP goes. People weren't paying a tenner for their cds because FOPP was a fiver.

I wonder if its the same situation as happened with Missing Records.
They expanded to lots of shops and the money wasn't there. Missing had trouble with paying bills for years and a few times they weren't getting new stuff in. They closed some shops and concentrated on the one store. Then they closed the basement of that and eventually moved to a smaller shop and then after a while went second hand only because they couldn't get new stuff in.

So did anyone get into FOPP today?

Or are they all still shut?

i didn't go in but apparently most were open today and only accepting cash "because the credit card machines are out of order" :/

I see..

Just checked the website (online ordering, etc)

Due to circumstances beyond our control we cannot currently take orders online. We should be back to full operation early next week. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. -Fopp Webteam