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We all love a bargain. In the internet cafes thread someone said that they're the only bargains in London. Mr Tea said "pound shops" and that got me thinking... London is now the world's most expensive city so what else is bargain? I would say: The fishmongers in Stoke Newington Buying weird...

Hi all In response to the disaster in Haiti, the good people at Waxidermy (home of "weird records that suck") are organising a series of charity record auctions. People are pulling out interesting and collectible pieces from their own collections and putting them up for auction in thread. Tons...

My head is getting cold and I want a nice hat. Any recommendations? Been wearing just a totally plain black Therminsulate hat for the last winter which keeps you warm but has no style points. Saw a mate wearing something similar on Saturday and thought that looks so UGLY. Functional but...

My musical tastes are a bit more retrogressive than most round here, thus the format fetishism, but everyone loves 45s, don't they? The perfect format for me - at least 50% killer, small, enough room for groovy labels and cool pic sleeves. I'd like to find out about more cool 45s - the...

Musical Fever @ The Others, Stoke Newington Saturday 2nd May 9-late £7 A night of top quality rocksteady and revive with a clash from scene stalwarts Tiny T and Jesse Ja,es www.myspace.com/musicalfever67 Definitely going to reach this - John, this is a night put on by my mate Ritchie, who...

I really enjoyed reading about the old Dissensus Cassette Swap on Ferrite Love Connection , I love getting given cassettes and regretted not taking part. I've also brought Thurston Moore's book on mixtapes which is quite good fun, and more importanly, I've brought a ton of records recently...

Picked this up at the weekend. It’s a new Honest Jon’s compilation, based on a trawl through the EMI 78s archives in Harrow. It collects 23 different recordings which were made in London between 1927-29 by African singers and musicians. This material was recorded solely for export to emerging...

Who here still views themselves as a record collector, and if so what sort of stuff do you buy? I was wondering how/if people’s habits have been changed by the MP3 revolution. I’ve been getting back into buying records again lately, though mostly represses, I haven’t ventured into scary...

Anyone know much about UK MC YT? (Too many capitals in that sentence). Has anyone heard his album "Straight Outta Britain"? Think it came out in 2006. Thinking of picking it up, and wanted to share the love... I'm going to get it solely on the strength of his "England Story", the title track...

Wonder if any of you lot can help me? I want to get my girlfriend some electro pop CDs for Xmas - probably one of her favourite records of all time is The Knife's Heartbeats (what is it about girls and electropop? - too much Depeche Mode as a teenager I suspect). We've already got the Robyn...

I'm sure that everybody here is well aware of the directly competitive strands to be found in black music - MC clashes in grime and hip hop being the most obvious examples but you've also got things like soundclashes in reggae. I though it might be intereresting to discuss these phenomena. A...