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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 21, 2023 15:49:50 GMT
Thanks mortified for reminding me about my record buying now. I use Fopp too. Though I think it's been bought out and is no longer an independent. I think you're right. Something tells me they have links to HMV but I can't remember why I know that. However, as a record store, they're close to the best around. These new HMV shops are hopeless and are just playing at it. I think Fopp is the best for browsing too. So I had a quick online search, and you may know this. Fopp began as a market stall in Glasgow! But the owner was English Gordon Montgomery. You were right, in 2007, they were taken over by HMV but in 2019, a Canadian record chain, Sunrise Records took over the name leaving only 6 shops trading as Fopp. And in 2020, the Glasgow Byres road branch closed too. [All info curtesy of its wiki page.]
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Aug 21, 2023 16:03:33 GMT
curiousgirl, that's interesting because Fopp have just opened a second store just before the West End of Princes Street, although I haven't been in yet. I don't know if that might be a replacement store and they've closed the other one. I'll check next time I'm dotting about the city. It's too manic just now with the Festival on. You can't move for street jugglers and people handing you leaflets to see a female impersonator pogo act to the music of Judy Garland I'm kidding by the way! Although you just never know during August in Edinburgh You mentioning Glasgow reminds of when I used to travel through there to clients on a weekly basis (self-employed law accountancy; don't ask - really dull ) and I used to go into Tower Records because they didn't have one in Edinburgh. It was really good. This was the late 90's.
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Post by paperplanebairn on Aug 26, 2023 13:49:02 GMT
....someone has tried resurrecting Avalanche in Waverly Market, though seems more t-shirts and tat than actual records. I noticed that. When I was trying to get two Quo releases on Record Store Day a couple of years back, they were touted as having them. They didn't and never did have And neither did anywhere else Apart from a shop on Cockburn Street but they were sold out. Can't remember the name. You're right; loads of t-shirts and assorted tat in Avalanche. As with these new HMV shops. Actual music seems to take second place. Which suggests these outlets are trying to cover all bases. Doomed to failure of course because vinyl in particular is a current fad. It'll pass because like all fashions, they've saturated a limited market. Fopp is the go to place for me these days if I want a physical browse. That was Coda, I was 3rd in the queue that morning and Tokyo Quo was top of my list, pretty sure that was when all the teenies were queueing up for the one direction release and going apeshit further back when they realised their chances of getting a copy were slim due to the ones in front coming back out with tears of joy running down their face....🤣
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Post by Detroit on Aug 28, 2023 19:57:42 GMT
This is the best one in my neck of the woods. The Turntable in Fan Tan Alley Victoria, BC link
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Post by donttastemywine on Sept 2, 2023 7:39:33 GMT
Harlequin Records in Oxford was great for cheap imports, Quo stuff on A&M and Capitol, German singles with picture sleeves. Got my early Ramones, Saints, Dead Boys and Talking Heads stuff there as well. Listen In Co/The Music Box in Didcot and Wallingford were the local mainstream shops. Was Harlequin the shop on Cornmarket that became Our Price? Music Market was always the one for me. There was one opposite Harlequin above an opticians, and one at the Longwall end of the High Street. There was also Sunshine Records/Quicksilver in Little Clarendon Street. The owner gave me the cardboard promo display for 12 Gold Bars. As well as Rude Boy and The Great Rock 'n' roll Swindle. And a few others that I wasn't really bothered about.
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Post by col on Sept 3, 2023 18:03:53 GMT
Harlequin Records in Oxford was great for cheap imports, Quo stuff on A&M and Capitol, German singles with picture sleeves. Got my early Ramones, Saints, Dead Boys and Talking Heads stuff there as well. Listen In Co/The Music Box in Didcot and Wallingford were the local mainstream shops. Was Harlequin the shop on Cornmarket that became Our Price? Music Market was always the one for me. There was one opposite Harlequin above an opticians, and one at the Longwall end of the High Street. Yes, Harlequin was on Cornmarket and became Our Price. The two Music Market shops were also brilliant for imports and punk/new wave, especially at Longwall who seemed to be able to to source, ahem, very limited, hard to find items that were not on the artistes usual record label and were often recorded live.
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Post by lemmystoenail on Sept 16, 2023 15:22:23 GMT
Probe and penny Lane records were the main haunts for me in the 70's-80's , I was served by Pete burns many a time back then in probe , 🤔🤔 he used to scare the shite out of me 🤣 The fella who was the owner of probe died earlier this week coincidently
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