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

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!

― PJ Miller, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:22 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

"you just go into a deeper level of stingyness"

LOL & OTM

Damn right.

Also, as well, a level of nomnomnomnom where you buy stuff you really don't need....

its this level of nomnomnoming that's made me give up CDs entirely this year. (except Can SACDS)

at least if I waste money on .mp3s I don't have to look at them on the shelf and move house with them every couple of years.

I have at least 2 boxes of just shit i have never given more than a cursory listen to due to thinking "Spiritualised complete works? both 2CD volumes for £4 each?"

I'd be stupid to not buy those.

Then they are forgotten about by the time I get home.

That's why when the Reading one closed, it was sort of a blessing...

Also, the thing with seeing stuff marked down so much, is that you kinda think to yourself that it's cos it's being deleted and if you don't buy it there and then, you'll never ever have the chance to own it again, or if you do, it'll be 10x more expensive. It makes me panic buy.

Can - "Can" £4. Why does no-one like this album? It's flippin' fantastic! I love Reepob/Rosko era Can.

I was looking for Delay 68, but the only other reissue they had was Rite Time. I think I'll have to pick that up this week. Oh yeah, they had Soundtracks too.

I bet you there are other SACDs in other branches lost under piles of Kooks CDs.

dammit, if Fopp just had some sort of mail order....

.....well we'd all be doomed then wouldn't we?

They used to have a website, it was rub.

Exeter Fopp has opened.

Can - Delay 1968 - £4
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns - £2
Animal Collective - Spirit They've Gone / Dense Manatee - £5
Lambchop - OH (ohio) - £3
Eno - Ambient 4 (On Land) - £5

Could have spent more but it's not payday till Wednesday.

Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns - £2

despite the jacknife lee production nick ?

(i recently asked him re his sharper than sharp style - so will be interested to hear what he says, well, thats if i ever get feedback from him)

It's for Em not me; she loves the first two/three albums (I like them a lot too) but was so disappointed with the Chasing Cars one that she never bother with the last one; but for £2...

Just picked up Watchmen single disc, and The Departed which was a massive £3. Will wait till payday to buy anymore musics.

last weeks finds

£3 jimmy smith : back at the chicken shack
£4 cannonball adderley : mercy, mercy, mercy !
£7 miles davis : in a silent way

all of them have already been played far more times on my stereo than anything released in 2009.
oh, and it will be 5 weeks before i am able to go near a cd shop again, wondering how long it will be before the cold turkey shakes begin to kick in.