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

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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

Suck It And See gets the thumbs up though - I don't think anywhere else will give you your money back if your punt does turn out to be inessential, no questions asked.

Well, one question asked, usually.

Was that the place with a Tupperware box for the fanzine money?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Incidentally, if Virgin Megastores wish to retain my custom, they would do well NOT to ask me that bloody question "Did you find everything you were looking for?" at the till. "No, actually I was looking for Tacky Souvenirs Of Pre-Revolutionary America by Culturcide but failed to find it sandwiched between your generous quantity of discounted Cult and Culture Club CDs." "??????"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, the Reading branch is closed for a 'major refit', i.e. will have been closed 6 months when it reopens.

I remember when the old megastore closed in London, similarly, and from being a 'postpunk den' into the streamlined sales point it is now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

haha yeah marcello, got asked that selfsame quest in the megabore a few weeks ago - i wanted to say "no becos yr selection of noise and free jazz is poxy to the max" but didn't cos a) it is not retail slave's fault and b) i had just found a musica transonic alb on PSF for £3.99 in their sale so was reasonably 'happy'

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

tescos is the tescos of music.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

tescos is the tescos of tescos

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

wimbledon is wimbledon and that's what makes it wimbledon

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

new Fopp opening 222 tottenham court road. London

dunno when...

thats up by Habitat and Heals, looks pretty big, although I hope they dont try to put a cafe in it lke they did with the edinburgh rose st. one.

― danny boy (danny boy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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