Mission Accomplished
Report to the Massive on Fopp raid 21/10/08 4.45pm (see yesterdays thread called "Big Trip" if you're confused)
Firstly, poked my nose into Selectadisc.....good choice, lots of punk, 60's/70's stuff etc but not enormously user friendly for someone in a hurry and heaving a briefcase round with him. Also looked a bit pricey.
On to Fopp.....as expected a wide choice. Soon staggering round with an armful and the briefcase (it doesn't look cool carrying one of their shopping baskets does it?). Didn't even get to the DVD's and books - God help my credit card and marriage if I had.
Fruits of labours listed below:
David Sylvian - Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
John Martyn - The Church with One Bell
Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave & the Bold
Tom Verlaine - Songs & Other Things
Giant Sand - A Cover Magazine
Orcestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Spencer Davis Group - Best Of
John & Beverley Martyn - Stormbringer
Jayhawks - Smile
Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire
Warren Zevon - The Envoy
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Gipsy Kings - Very Best Of
All of the above for the princely sum of sixty four of our lovely English pounds, or for the accountants amongst us, an average of four quid a piece.
Could you download all that lot for less? Don't know, but you wouldn't have a nice pile of plastic and I suspect if I downloaded that much I'd never listen to a chunk of it at all. Out of sight out of mind seems to be a rule with electronically stored music to me. At least with CD's theres a square of plastic to remind you its there.
Hope thats been of help. There was loads more but much was already in the collection, or of the "mmmmmm....not sure about that" category, or cost £7 each or more or I just couldn't carry any more.
Hope thats been of help.
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Glad you had a good trip to
Glad you had a good trip to nottingham.
Selectadisc IS more a browse shopping experiance than a quick in/out job.
Glad to see some Ryan Adams/whiskeytown in there
Rock n Roll was much derided, but actually is a pretty good record, So Alive, and Miss America, and on punmonia i think Crazy about you is one of my fave songs ever.
I got
Hairway To Steven by Butthole Surfers for £3 last week. Amazing.
Oooh, and Scritti Politti's Provision, an olde New York Dolls compilation, a Chic double, Gang Of Four's Songs Of The Free and the Michael Bracewell Roxy Music book (£2! snip!)
I am indeed £19 man.
Yesterday I bough REMs Live DVD/2CD set for £5 from FOPP
I tried to watch the live show but the fast editing and the moving/zooming camera work made it pointless to continue after the first song. It's a concert, not a music video. If you want a good concert video buy Perfect Square instead.
I also picked up Singles 97-07 by Natalie Umbriglia (sic) for £3. I liked it and I'm not ashamed.
I went to...
...the Manchester branch of Fopp yesterday and got: -
Morrissey - You are the Quarry (CD + DVD edition)
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop - The Definitive Collection (2CD)
Trojan Instrumentals Box Set (3CD)
and Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go - 10th Anniversary Edition (2CD + DVD)
..all for £20!
They've also still got The Kinks' Pye albums knocking around for £3 each if anyone's interested.
More boxes of Trojans
Let's not brag, eh, lads?
Keep listing current Fopp bargains
and I'll see if my wife could maybe pop into Fopp with a wee list when she's in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks.
The Warren Zevons, REM Live and Manics Anniversary ones are all items I'd be unable to resist if I had the chance to Fopp shop.
Or Fopp could just get a move on with their long promised sales website.
I recollect
seeing a number of Zevon's but ran out of carrying capacity. Best to give the little lady a list and plenty of cash I would suggest.
I know where my pocket money is going next month
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B001E0YZII/sr=8-1/qid=12246774...
I always thought CD's were circular?
Anyhoo...
Going down the legal route, you'd probably struggle to better the price - and the 'quality' would be lacking (though with torrents offering FLAC quality music, that's negated).
Downloading is rather clinical & lacking in any emotion, well that was my first impression when I firsted stepped into iStore.
Buying music in a store is infinately more pleasurable, but living in Hartlepool we have almost no music shops of note - stuck with WHSmith / Tesco / ASDA / Morrisons (on a side note, some rather 'clever' vandals have managed to knock out the lights of the middle 3 letters of the sign of the last listed supermarkets name - making for intriguing viewing on a late night), meaning visits to Newcastle & online shopping at CD Wow! & Amazon are a must.
Ahah.....
Reno, you are correct. the CD is round but I was referring to those lovely square boxes and the miniscule words thereon!
I'm well aware of what you were referring to...
... but If I can't use my dry wit and repartee to impress, then I'm snookered!
Sorry Reno
My wit and repartee detector missed that one.....surely, like the rest of us here you've got your dashing good looks to fall back on?
Speaking personally,
it was falling back on my dashing good looks that gave me this bad back...
Piles of CDs
> Could you download all that lot for less?
- Legally I suspect not.
- At 320kbps from a Russian website of doubtful legality, almost certainly
- As FLACs from Demonoid (or similar torrent site), definitely - given time
>Don't know, but you wouldn't have a nice pile of plastic
That's a GOOD thing - physical CDs are just more 'stuff' cluttering the place up.
>and I suspect if I downloaded that much I'd never listen to a chunk of it at all.
I find that's the beauty of going digital - having a socking great jukebox with all my music on random play the whole time I'm continually surpised at what music I'd forgotten about!
I know what you mean
and I almost always have my pod set to random but I've already got 24,000 tracks and increasing, not counting the extra 200 or so bought yesterday. At that rate either the pod or I will expire long before I get to most of whats on it.