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

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.

Mercy Mercy Mercy is fucking wicked.

it is indeed.
just sound tracked the daily lunch time session, and could see the younger of my two offspring getting into it.

The other day in Cov Gdns they had the mega mega luxury Elektra Records box set (Forever Changing) for £40, but I already have the normal version sitting on my shelves being happily ignored.

Hmm! I might actually go in for that!

But I'm in Brum!

Be more specific, which other day?

Or will they likely have sold out?

Popped in today but didn't buy anything. Manager is my brother's best friend. Reckons they might get Animal Collective for an instore soon. I'd be very pleasantly surprised, and also shocked; manager is also often full of shit, although he means well.

Espers II for £3. There was an Animal Collective CD for £3 but ILM has put me off listening to them.

you let ILM put you off a band?

The Lex's work is done.

A band I hadn't heard, not like I used to like them and ILM made me throw their albums in a skip or sumthin'

Well I never saw you as someone who would chuck out cd's just because ILM hated them.

The descriptions made them sound vile - from both sides of the debate

I still think they are vile, however, I now like them. If that makes sense. Any logical description of them sounds like something that would make me want to kill kittens. But, somehow, it works, and I have been sucked in.

I like the early stuff, the last couple i wasnt so keen on and the newest one I've only heard once.

The Elektra thing was there on Saturday. I would phone or something before making a special journey.

Well, as it turns out I'll be passing there anyway, so I'll have a look-in, thanks anyway.

Krakow posted this on the king crimson thread, FOPP in glasgow have a big prog rock display with all the king crimson cds for a fiver. I finally picked up Discipline.

Also FOPP in Glasgow has Meters cds for a fiver. I have them on vinyl (bought from fopp in the late 90s up the west end of glasgow, back when fopp licensed albums to represson vinyl) but if you dont have Meters albums then get these!

I'm still waiting on the Miles Davis Cellar Door Sessions box to turn up. I know that it was offered by one of the bulk-selling wholesalers for cheap a couple of months ago and expected it to appear in Fopp before too long, but so far no word...

Which Meters? I got Rejuvenation on vinyl as part of the Virgin clearout (along with a bunch of James Brown, Lyn Collins, Gil Scott Heron, Donny Hathaway etc) a while back, but I'd love some of the earlier ones. Wish I'd snapped up all the Fopp soul and jazz vinyl in the late 90s. I got a few, but my schoolboy/student budget and lack of knowledge meant I must have missed some amazing stuff at bargain prices. Sigh.

theres earlier and later ones. Look in the meters section on the racks.

I got a lof of the fopp funk vinyl back then. Tower sold them too

Lot

Neither Fopp nor music, but HMV in Oxford had season one of The A Team for a fiver. I managed to resist.