WARNING: Fopp can be hazardous to your wallet

[tanngrisnir]

Fopp, as I was saying in a comment on progmeister’s LJ, is a wonderful shop. It reminds me of the record shops I used to frequent when I was at school and the University. What is even better, it has absolute shitloads of CDs at prices like £5, and DVDs at £8-10. Many of the CDs around the back wall are absolute classics, and some of the DVDs are ones you won’

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[highstone]

I have noticed this too with Fopp, the particular branch I visit is especially memorable since it is in the same shop that used to be occupied by Bill Lewingtons (where I bought my saxophone reeds).

Why is it that they can manage a so much more *interesting* range of cheap/sale DVDs than the other chains?

[tanngrisnir]

I know, that is the question which is always in my mind.

[psychochicken]

...and yet, your now playing selection suggests a small lapse of self control around the £5 CDs..... ;)

[tanngrisnir]

Well, as that was the item I went in there to seek out... ;o)

The self-control was in not thinking, Oh, who needs food, I will just take these ten... or maybe twenty other CDs as well!