The £5 record buying (mostly photo based) occasional series #2: Greenwich Music & Video Exchange

During a break watching wanky arts students doing funny dances at Greenwich & Docklands International Festival Helen and I visited another record shop with a bargain section, this time on Greenwich Church Street. The Music & Video Exchange shop is part of a wider group of shops in London and Birmingham which sells second hand nonsense from clothing to homeware to records. The shop in Greenwich specialises in music and videos and sells vinyl albums from £1 and 7 "s from 10p. The only reason I agreed to go to the festival was because there was a massive model of a dead whale there which ended up being an even more massive disappointment so the respite of sifting through racks of crap records came as a huge (or indeed massive) relief. It wouldn't be long till we would be watching wanky arts students push prams around in the name of modern dance so the time was very precious. Here's what we came out with.

The Beach Boys- 20 Golden Greats

Original boy band whose bastardised version of themselves recently supported JLS in a park. Bought because: My record collection has gaping holes and the cover is awful in at least two ways.

Thompson Twins- Here's To Future Days

Crap new wave nonsense. Bought because: the bands bad clothes, hair and poses on the cover. And the naked baby who seems to have wandered into the band shot from a different studio.

10CC- How Dare You!

Average band who sang about cricket and other stuff but were obviously well ahead of their time as they predicted text speak by naming one of their members LOL. Bought because: they also predicted the overuse of the mobile phone on the cover and the inside cover which depicts a party full of people all on their phones.

Dory Previn- Mythical Kings and Iguanas

Nu-folk before nu-folk existed. So old folk, or just folk. Bought because: Helen had heard of her.

Tracey Ullman- You Broke My Heart in 17 Places

The original Daphne, or Celeste. Record came out on Stiff Records. Bought because: the variety of stupid poses on the cover and a couple of lovely high tempo, high pitched pop songs.

Support your local (and not so local) record shops.

Visit Greenwich Music & Video Exchange at 23 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich SE10