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

Yes and Yes.

And it was pretty busy to-day which i take to be a good sign. I bought some Cary Grant dvds, a...ahem...Mark Knopfler album, a Morrissey album (£2!), and some jazz. Oh, and Elf for the kids. With free alarm clock!

Didn't seem to have as much stuff generally (and 'electronica'/dancey, stuff in particular) but there were a few signs about saying that not all the stock was in.

do they still have "suck it and see" or is it now "We Give good Head - suck it and see"

branding copyright infringement alert: HEAD is sports equipment and clothing company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_%28company%29

also I wonder what the HMV executives would think of them - HEAD - using "Music Film + Books" ex Fopp retail design branding - when HMV bought the Fopp branding from the administrators?

Hmm, I just remembered something from ye olde Foppe. Glasgow Union St branch used to have at the top of the stairs (for a period of at least a few months), a selection of LPs with dancing 70s New Yorkers on the sleeves. You know the type of thing - hot pants, skimpy brown knitwear, afros, couples rumba'ing in the middle of crowds of onlookers. If I remember rightly, they were compilations of latin soul or similar, and some of the titles made reference to 'Neuva York'. Other than that, nada, I never even heard them so could be miles off the mark.

What the hell were these things? I'm desirous of owning them right now, but have no idea how to track them down or even find out what they were, and I've never seen anything like them since.

sounds like soul jazz to me.

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=195

Muchas gracias.

or, since you mention LPs plural, could be:
http://www.discogs.com/release/439182

(there was a whole series of these)

Yeah, that's the one! Good work!

last clipse album for £2 or £3. didn't buy, tho.

some branches, at least, are selling THE SIMPSONS MOVIE for a fiver

alas, it's not that good.

Hidden is in for £5 atm. I got Last House on the Left and Repulsion for £12 combined. Tha'll do me Mistah.

Fopp in Bristol to reopen March 27th

http://mynameispiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/fop-is-back.html

hurray. thats my lunch hour tomorrow sorted.

The old Reading one is still empty.

yeah the Fopp opposite my office in Bristol centre is still advertising the SMD album.
this new one is in yet another new location - their fourth for this place!

Clipse down to £1 now (Covent Garden)!

I got a Spike Jones double CD for £3 instead.

Fopp in Bristol to reopen March 27th

actually open today and busy.

discovered that the Dead 60s actually released a second album last year, but even at the price of £1 I let it sit there.

so, who would have thought Be You Own Pet needed so much security for an instore appearance ?

3 people in the band, 25 (ish) people watching, and a set of 10 or so booted and suited security staff.

while i'm chuffed bristol has a new Fopp, the electronic/dance section is very poor. fine for fans of bassement jaxx/mylo/fabric etc, but not a lot else.

same goes for hip hop which is pretty poorly catered for as well, and hidden away in the far far corner upstairs like some unwanted family member.

still, better than the HMV in which both the singles and dance section have been removed in recent weeks.

New look B*P friendly Radio 1 obviously having its effect.

ah ha. they have been picked by Radio One ?
wasn't aware of that DK, that explains a lot.

£1 just got me this slice of rather wonderful 70s jazz-disco-funk :

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R7ucMpNVL._SS500_.jpg

will probably end up being the most played of all my Fopp purchases.

OK so there's a shop called DADA that's suddenly appeared on Chiswick High Road, a few hundred yards down the street from the former branch of Fopp. It seems to be selling much the same stock as a Fopp (at same prices), uses their old racks, dividers and signage (same font and everything) and the stock uses the Fopp-style price stickers as well.

Apparently it's a new company started by David Pryde, who used to work at Fopp/HMV, though it is supposed to be unconnected to either.

It has no dance or urban/hip hop section. OTOH the World Cinema DVD section is massive.

Hmmm.

Well it is Chiswick.

Sister Ray had money off everything at the weekend - 30% off CDs, 40% off DVDs - but only for two days. I don't know if they will do it again. Seems likely. I couldn't find anything I wanted.

Sister Ray policy = "we want indiscriminate tourists buying what they heard on xfm this morning for a fiver serious people fuck off to webbyland kthnxbye"

I've passed that Dada shop on the bus but not gone in on basis (a) "anyone who says they're mad isn't" shop name and (b) vast Moody Blues display espiable inside.

> a few hundred yards down the street from the former branch of Fopp.

down the street in which direction? hammersmith way? (i work between the two, a few hundred yards this way would make it walkable in a lunchtime...)

down the street in which direction? hammersmith way?
No, heading away from Hammersmith. It's in that block just up from Sainsbury's. About next door but one or two from the Cancer Research shop.

The CR shop from experience usually has a better stock of music.

Yesterday I broke my £3 rule to buy :

Roman Polanski 4 DVD box set (£7)
Satantango 3 DVD set (£13)
Satyajit Ray - The Apu Trilogy 3 DVD set (£18)

Now I just need to find 20 spare hours to watch it all, maybe some time next year...

i still think £8 for the Moodysson box set (Fucking Amal, Together, Lilya 4-Eva, Hole in My Heart) is a pretty kick-ass deal.

Not Fopp, but HMV (!)

As part of their "sale", they have miniboxsets of Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, to name but two, their first five albums for £14.

I did see Joe Satriani and Santana in a similar package, but has anyone else seen who else of interest are being done like this?

Fopp do have those as well, at least the Lou Reed one.

Fopp had a load of Byrds, Bob Dylan, Blue Oyster Cult, Beefheart etc CDs for £3 last time I went in there.

Yeah, finished up my Beefheart 'official' collection with "Bluejeans/Moonbeams" a while ago.

It's not "baaaad" as such, but I can see why people got disappointed.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vnH1Bh8fL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

^^^^^ this is worth picking up from Fopp for a fiver - they had piles of them last time I was there.

Of course, Monsieur le Zavvi is not spoiling us at all: in receivership, stock reduced in price by 10%, and not accepting any Zavvi gift vouchers.

Not that I have any, but I sympathise...

"Not Fopp, but HMV (!)

As part of their "sale", they have miniboxsets of Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, to name but two, their first five albums for £14."

11.99 on the website.

has anyone else seen who else of interest are being done like this?

Mark, do a search using "Original Album Classics: 5cd" on the HMV website. Quite tempted to get Jefferson Airplane and Blue Oyster Cult sets to replace my vinyl. Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Sonny Rollins sets too. Am hugely boggled by the existence of the Big Audio Dynamite one though.

I see hmv.com have that 6-disc box of Fall BBC sessions for £12, too. Pretty tempting but am I really going to sit down and listen to all that?

Was hoping for a 5-CD Mingus set but no luck. Still, Reed would be worth a go if I didn't have three of them already (though only one on CD, so maybe it still is), and the Mahavishnu one sounds worth a punt. Cheers!

(Got a bit pissed off with the HMV website last time I ordered from them, but it was sorted out after I wrote an angry email, and I did get an HMV voucher for Christmas)

Get that Fall box set, it's ace!

cf: Oh! The Fall John Peel Sessions box set! OH! you guys.

I had an eyeball through the boxes on view: others not mentioned = Steve Vai, Elvis, and Agnetha Falkskog...

I saw the BoC set, not me.

(fwiw, got the Lou and Patti sets)

Big audio Dynamite?

I'm there.

(reads the Fall thread) OK, sold! By which I mean, it'd better still be available by the time I get home, as that is where my HMV voucher is, which I'm hoping has some kind of type-into-website code.

There is a Fopp ad in the front of the new Plan B, which surprised me a bit given their implosion, and now just makes me jealous that I don't live within 50 miles of one. But it's an ad for new-and-forthcoming indie releases at sliver-below-RRP prices rather than the real cheapies that this thread is for, so, carry on.

I went into Woolies in Hamilton today. They're selling packs of 5 cds for a fiver. Some good stuff mixed in with shite. I bought 2 packs.
Got Portishead - Third, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, 2 Metallica cds and some other stuff like huey lewis,status quo(which i gave to my mate), tony christie (which i gave to my dad) . If I had been in earlier I expect there wouldve been even better stuff. but i was quite pleased to finally get the Portishead cd.

Woolies closes forever tomorrow evening they said.

yeah, same as the Reading one.

the woolies most local to me has already gone.
completely stripped bare according to my spies, aka wife + kids, with little evidence of the shop ever existing.