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.
― Hamildan, Sunday, 12 July 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
cambridge branch has recently lost shelf space to what looks to be some kind of ipod port. fuck that.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 12 July 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"you just go into a deeper level of stingyness"
LOL & OTM
― jed_, Sunday, 12 July 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn right.
Also, as well, a level of nomnomnomnom where you buy stuff you really don't need....
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 July 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hamildan, Sunday, 12 July 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
That's why when the Reading one closed, it was sort of a blessing...
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 July 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Sunday, 12 July 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr.C, Monday, 13 July 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Hamildan, Monday, 13 July 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
They used to have a website, it was rub.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 July 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Exeter Fopp has opened.
Can - Delay 1968 - £4Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns - £2Animal Collective - Spirit They've Gone / Dense Manatee - £5Lambchop - OH (ohio) - £3Eno - Ambient 4 (On Land) - £5
Could have spent more but it's not payday till Wednesday.
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 July 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― mark e, Saturday, 25 July 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 26 July 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Just picked up Watchmen single disc, and The Departed which was a massive £3. Will wait till payday to buy anymore musics.
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 July 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Monday, 27 July 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Mercy Mercy Mercy is fucking wicked.
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 July 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it is indeed. just sound tracked the daily lunch time session, and could see the younger of my two offspring getting into it.
― mark e, Monday, 27 July 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm! I might actually go in for that!
But I'm in Brum!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Be more specific, which other day?
Or will they likely have sold out?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Espers II for £3. There was an Animal Collective CD for £3 but ILM has put me off listening to them.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
you let ILM put you off a band?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The Lex's work is done.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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'
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Well I never saw you as someone who would chuck out cd's just because ILM hated them.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The descriptions made them sound vile - from both sides of the debate
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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 can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the early stuff, the last couple i wasnt so keen on and the newest one I've only heard once.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
The Elektra thing was there on Saturday. I would phone or something before making a special journey.
― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, as it turns out I'll be passing there anyway, so I'll have a look-in, thanks anyway.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― krakow, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Stew, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 6 August 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Lot
Neither Fopp nor music, but HMV in Oxford had season one of The A Team for a fiver. I managed to resist.
― PJ Miller, Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
thats the best one as Amy is in it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 23 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey guys, loadsa £3-£4 metal in the London branch! Emperor! Nachtmysium! Um...Dimmu Borgir! Er...Iced Earth! Lotsa Rev-Ola reissues too, all cheap cheap cheap! I have to stay out of this place.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 27 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Life is for living and money is for spending.
― krakow, Thursday, 27 August 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
'Horizons Touched - The Music of ECM' for £10 yesterday out of Glasgow Union Street. Amazing. A super fancy Granta coffee table beauty in a hefty black slipcase. I love me some ECM...
― krakow, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Going to listen to Arvo Pärt's Lamentate at soul-expanding volume in honour...
― krakow, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys, the "Forever Changing" Deluxe box is in TCR, £40.
And the 3CD "Tell Tale Signs" Dylan deluxe is in also, £35.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 September 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
They had quite a few of each tonight, but you know how these go...
They wouldn't happen to be doing Beatles boxes at a similar price would they?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 September 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
The single CDs were about a pound more than other places.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 September 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
New Wire Primers book for £10, a couple of quid cheaper than elsewhere (even with a subscriber discount it's £11 from the Wire themselves).
http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/the_wire/shop/primer-cover001.jpg
― krakow, Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Simon Reynolds' Totally Wired for £2!!! They've got stacks of the paperback original in the Glasgow Byre's Road branch, and presumably elsewhere.
Better still, I just picked up Michael Bracewell's Remake Remodel for £3! It's a beautiful Faber hardback, with gorgeous photo plates. They had a stack of 'em in Glasgow Union Street branch.
Loads of Ballard and David Peace for £2 just now too.
― Stew, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Sly and the Family Stone, "Greatest Hits" remaster, £3, Glasgow Fopp.
― Mark G, Monday, 4 January 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
And Exeter, so probably everywhere.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 4 January 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link