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(on tweenies DVDs though, so Vinyl Exchange can relax)

Yeah, I saw they had some for £3 the other week, but Fifi and the Flowertots is still full price.

Can you confirm that it is bigger than the Shaftesbury Avenue branch, Jerry?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It's on three floors, but roughly the same size I would say.

For the record, the DVDs were the no less twee: 'Kiki's delivery service', 'Laputa' and the Boosh box.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

new one in Chiswick High Road too - much needed I should add

pretty small and cramped tho

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

...but better than the spacious Music Zone that took over from MVC down the road.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I will always love MVC, for selling me the Faust box for £2 (twice), and the Nirvana 'lights out' one for £20.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Maidenhead MVC has also become Music Zone. They have the second Werner Herzog box for a tenner. Hmm.

I got a film called Tarnation from Fopp for a fiver. I am quite pleased with my purchase.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I work just down the road from teh Chiswick Fopp! The Music Zone is shite. I got a load of bargains from MVC before it closed though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay: so what's on your fopping shopping list at the moment?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Plenty. But nothing I can actually purchase at Fopp.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Cravings for cheap back-catalogue are a weakness I am often powerless to overcome. That and nowhere else being open round here by the time I finish work.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Currently I have a craving for the Laguna Tunes compilation which I can't even find in Oxford Circus HMV, never mind Fopp.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Laguna Tunes - I don't know what that is, but it makes me think of Slim Gaillard ovootie oroonie.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

It's this one. Admittedly it is an import-only job and came out six years ago, but the original American version (with vocals!) of "Groovin' With Mr Bloe" in particular I've been after for ages, and this is the only CD wot's got it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

This might interest you Marcello: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BestOffer-Various-Laguna-Tunes-CD_W0QQitemZ4818336395QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

ah but "NO INSERTS - JUST CD!" I like to have the sleeve and booklet and things. Thanks anyway...it's the sort of thing which is sometimes apt to turn up unexpectedly in the racks at Reckless for £5.99.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought Odetta Sings Dylan for a fiver. Money well spent.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I recently picked up Kevin Rowland's The Wanderer on CD for 50p and still felt I'd been overcharged!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

taking sides: Camden

2000: Tower & Rhythm Records

2006: Virgin & Fopp

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cure remasters for £6 a pop. Oh yes. I only got Seventeen Seconds and Faith, but still.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Are those the stingy single-disc versions, or the full-on deluxe jobbies?

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 April 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

It can't be,surely.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 2 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the stingy single-disc versions in the Dundee store, don't know about anywhere else.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 2 April 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

hardly worth the effort, then

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Citizen Kane cleanedupdigitalremasterspecialedition!!!! For a fiver!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I am disappointed by the recent £6 development.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

seen in Camden Fopp.

All old Can Remasters £8.
The new Can Remasters £10

you wont find cheaper. *Fact*

― danny boy (danny boy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, tempting to the extreme! Which should I go for? Are the new remasters that much better?

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV.

I did find cheaper. *Fact*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

A penny for your thought there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you wont find cheaper (and support smaller record shops)

£7.99? gonna check this out at lunchtime.

― danny boy (danny boy), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Do not feed the illiterate troll.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV.

holy fuck i'm there.

i reckon amazon ain't much more expensive though.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

the Fopp in Covent Garden/Seven Dials seems to have gone downhill in the last six months - nothing there you won't find for the same price (or cheaper, as Marcello points out) in HMV

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link

All new Can remasters £7.99 in HMV

That means they'll be £4.99 in a month or two

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The Brighton one has gone a bit more expensive too in the last few months. I'd assumed that this was cos their local rival in the cheapo market (Essential Music) had shut down after thriving until Fopp moved into town (it's nice to think that Fopp forces HMV etc to close, but more than likely it's local independent places that suffer worst). But maybe it's a national pricing thing instead then?

x-post

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

dada -- y'think? they non-remasters *never* came beneath a tenner.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Essential Music gone? Jesus...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

dada -- y'think? they non-remasters *never* came beneath a tenner

And they never got down to £7.99 either

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Marcello, how far did you get with the Bob Dylan box, as mentioned above?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Currently I am stuck at a Self Portrait impasse.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Quite like that one. Didn't like the "Basement Tapes" so much. I'm jolly bonkers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Not so bonkers, "Self Portrait" is one of the only Dylan albums I've ever listened to with any enjoyment

― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Self Portrait is all right, but New Morning is a bit of a drag. Not looking forward to the Mark Knopfler Years either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The album that started this thread, Nick Drake whatever it's called, is now £6 in Fopp. Not quite a fiver, but low enough to keep us all on tenterhooks.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 12 June 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I dealt at £7. Noel would have consoled.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You...were...one...ounce...short...of...self...belief.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link

fopp have a great angle though, you always think your getting a bargain when 75% of the time you arent

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i bought the new JPod thing by douglas coupland there the other day for £9 quid only to see it cheaper in borders about 100m down the road. so yes.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, in that respect, yes.

But also, you end up buying stuff you'd never consider otherwwise, as it's cheap enough to take a punt, and nine times out of ten it's inessential.

But, I did play those Kevin Ayers albums a fair bit. So, yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Fopp are the Tescos of music.

It was never like this in the early days when they were just a stall in the Savoy Centre in Glasgow (when they were still called A-One Sounds) and the owner used to enthuse endlessly about Arthur Blythe and George Russell.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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