Was looking through my local branch of Fopp Music store (Edinburgh) today. They had a pile of "The Hits/The B Sides for only £5 a pop. A bargain i'm sure you will agree.

I presume that other Fopp stores around the UK will have the same bargain.

I nabbed a copy to have a spare, always useful.

[Edited 9/10/10 10:35am]

MikeyB71 said:

Was looking through my local branch of Fopp Music store (Edinburgh) today. They had a pile of "The Hits/The B Sides for only £5 a pop. A bargain i'm sure you will agree.

I presume that other Fopp stores around the UK will have the same bargain.

I nabbed a copy to have a spare, always useful.

[Edited 9/10/10 10:35am]

As a side note, same store has the D&P video collection (dvd) for £3, still sealed.

MikeyB71 said:

MikeyB71 said:

Was looking through my local branch of Fopp Music store (Edinburgh) today. They had a pile of "The Hits/The B Sides for only £5 a pop. A bargain i'm sure you will agree.

I presume that other Fopp stores around the UK will have the same bargain.

I nabbed a copy to have a spare, always useful.

[Edited 9/10/10 10:35am]

As a side note, same store has the D&P video collection (dvd) for £3, still sealed.

They can be re-sealed. But still, that's a damn fine price. Unfortunately it doesn't look like they do mail order. I still don't have one of those on DVD.

Ha! I found it on Amazon for the same price and very reasonable shipping. Sweet!

Cerebus said:

Ha! I found it on Amazon for the same price and very reasonable shipping. Sweet!

Nice.

that used to be a really expensive set. i remember someone just got their hands on the new promo 12" of the pope/pink cashmere and offered to swap for the b sides disc, so i bought a second set just to get the promo (back at the time it was first issued). it was definately well worth it though. the guy was well chuffed to get that disc and as he was one of the most succesful club promotors in town it ensured i got free entry to a lot of places for a while, long after i stopped working the clubs myself (it's amazing the things i got to do because of prince connections!)

i also got one or two copies of the promo 1 cd set. they were pretty hard to get at the time, but two seperate record store owners gave me theirs, including one guy who was well known as a right moody cunt, but he had a good record store with great prices and sold promos and stuff, and if you did get to be one of the few to know him, he was a nice bloke really

as for diamonds and pearls, i remember paying about £30 for the laserdisc and then a mate brought me back another sealed copy from amsterdam, and not long after the fucking dvd came out, after i got 2 laserdisc players and everything under the sun to put them on dvd. i still have lovesexy live in the laserdisc player thats still connected to the plasma. hurry the fuck up and release it on dvd warners, same with syracuse and the other stuff

unique said:

that used to be a really expensive set. i remember someone just got their hands on the new promo 12" of the pope/pink cashmere and offered to swap for the b sides disc, so i bought a second set just to get the promo (back at the time it was first issued). it was definately well worth it though. the guy was well chuffed to get that disc and as he was one of the most succesful club promotors in town it ensured i got free entry to a lot of places for a while, long after i stopped working the clubs myself (it's amazing the things i got to do because of prince connections!)

i also got one or two copies of the promo 1 cd set. they were pretty hard to get at the time, but two seperate record store owners gave me theirs, including one guy who was well known as a right moody cunt, but he had a good record store with great prices and sold promos and stuff, and if you did get to be one of the few to know him, he was a nice bloke really

as for diamonds and pearls, i remember paying about £30 for the laserdisc and then a mate brought me back another sealed copy from amsterdam, and not long after the fucking dvd came out, after i got 2 laserdisc players and everything under the sun to put them on dvd. i still have lovesexy live in the laserdisc player thats still connected to the plasma. hurry the fuck up and release it on dvd warners, same with syracuse and the other stuff

Wasn't the 3-disc set...like...30 bucks when it came out? Or maybe more than that?

Whatever it was...I thought long and hard about that purchase. But ultimately, I had to have it for the B-side disc.

Genesia said:

unique said:

that used to be a really expensive set. i remember someone just got their hands on the new promo 12" of the pope/pink cashmere and offered to swap for the b sides disc, so i bought a second set just to get the promo (back at the time it was first issued). it was definately well worth it though. the guy was well chuffed to get that disc and as he was one of the most succesful club promotors in town it ensured i got free entry to a lot of places for a while, long after i stopped working the clubs myself (it's amazing the things i got to do because of prince connections!)

i also got one or two copies of the promo 1 cd set. they were pretty hard to get at the time, but two seperate record store owners gave me theirs, including one guy who was well known as a right moody cunt, but he had a good record store with great prices and sold promos and stuff, and if you did get to be one of the few to know him, he was a nice bloke really

as for diamonds and pearls, i remember paying about £30 for the laserdisc and then a mate brought me back another sealed copy from amsterdam, and not long after the fucking dvd came out, after i got 2 laserdisc players and everything under the sun to put them on dvd. i still have lovesexy live in the laserdisc player thats still connected to the plasma. hurry the fuck up and release it on dvd warners, same with syracuse and the other stuff

Wasn't the 3-disc set...like...30 bucks when it came out? Or maybe more than that?

Whatever it was...I thought long and hard about that purchase. But ultimately, I had to have it for the B-side disc.

The 3 disc set was expensive when first released (in the UK at least).

Prices in the likes of HMV for the last few years have been between £15-25. So to get it for £5 is a steal imo. It is worth £5 just for the b-sides disc alone.

The 3 disc set is still selling for £15 on amazon (UK).

MikeyB71 said:

Genesia said:

Wasn't the 3-disc set...like...30 bucks when it came out? Or maybe more than that?

Whatever it was...I thought long and hard about that purchase. But ultimately, I had to have it for the B-side disc.

The 3 disc set was expensive when first released (in the UK at least).

Prices in the likes of HMV for the last few years have been between £15-25. So to get it for £5 is a steal imo. It is worth £5 just for the b-sides disc alone.

The 3 disc set is still selling for £15 on amazon (UK).

i worked in hmv the xmas it came out and it was about £32.99 or something. i remember my old boss sending someone i knew in to buy it and he moaned at me about the price cuz he thought i'd give him discount, but we weren't allowed to do that and it wasn't easy to get away with it. this was before everyone had barcode scanners to ring up the price. we had barcode scanners for chart returns, but those were a joke as no-one scanned stuff they didn't like, so all the tenny bop stuff like take that was never scanned, but if some poor cunt bought a smashing pumkins album it would be scanned umpteen times, and when it wasn't busy the staff would just keep scanning copies of the new albums they liked

the charts were also fucked as the reps offered us bribes like holidays if we sold/scanned a particular release and it got to number one, but it was always some shite like spice girls that they wanted to promote in the charts. once in the charts they would get radio play and appear on TOTP, which sold more records, which is why some cd singles were sold at 25p and stuff in places like bandparts and woolies, most of the copies were given to stores for nothing

fopp weren't a chart shop, but they did an indie chart for a chart tv show, and we just made up the charts, and put the shit that didn't sell at the top of the chart in the hope that students would buy it cuz it was number 1, and they actually did. our chart was in order of what we had the most stock and couldn't shift, the opposite of a normal chart, and it was broadcast to the nation on the telly and they would play the utter shite we couldn't sell as it was the number 1 indie record or something

The three disc hits/b-sides is one of the only Prince albums I ever remember being difficult to find at bay area record stores. It was around, but while it was in print it often sold out. I see it pretty regularly now, though.

MikeyB71 said:

Was looking through my local branch of Fopp Music store (Edinburgh) today. They had a pile of "The Hits/The B Sides for only £5 a pop. A bargain i'm sure you will agree.

I presume that other Fopp stores around the UK will have the same bargain.

I nabbed a copy to have a spare, always useful.

I wish I could find it that cheap here. I just refuse to pay a lot of money for that, even used.

this hasnt been remastered has it ?...the sound of some of those 80s, early 90s cds leaves a lot to be desired... ...wish prince and warners would get their fingers out their asses and do something about this...

Just got back from town, out of interest i popped into HMV on the way home, now bearing in mind that HMV own the chain of Fopp Music stores, HMV had the 3 disc Hits/B-Sides set priced at £24, yet they are selling piles of them in their Fopp store less than 1 mile away for £5 each. Crazy.

[Edited 9/11/10 4:56am]

MikeyB71 said:

Just got back from town, out of interest i popped into HMV on the way home, now bearing in mind that HMV own the chain of Fopp Music stores, HMV had the 3 disc Hits/B-Sides set priced at £24, yet they are selling piles of them in their Fopp store less than 1 mile away for £5 each. Crazy.

[Edited 9/11/10 4:56am]

it's just the parent company that owns it. there was a time when the parent company owned virgin megastores and hmv, and both had different prices and competed with each other. they had waterstones bookshops for a while, but i think they fucked it right up and then sold it on. virgin was bought out by staff and became zavvi, then it went bust, then the hut took over the name and they took over IWOOT, and i think they are the trading company behind a few other internet stores, so you go to say tesco webshite and think you buy a cd from them, but the order is fulfilled by the hut. a bit like how amazon work, but they do the whole site

i might pick up a spare copy for £5 and a couple of spare 21 nights books and leave one in the loo for guests to look at whilst having a dump