Number 9, Number 9, Number 9

I have now completed a successful shopping excursion and am ready to delve into Beatles Day head on.  In addition to The Beatles: Rock Band, I picked up some CDs and was able to get some free-bees in the process.

Here's the deal.  I went to Target and could not find the CDs.  The usual type of young (maybe 19 yo) employee pointed me to the games when I asked for the Beatles CDs.  He did not know anything about the music.  Fortunately, an employee who was closer to being my contemporary pointed me to the shelves of Beatles CDs that were off an end cap in the DVD section.  Oh well, at least they had them.  Target gives a $5 gift card for every two Beatles CDs you buy.  The single discs are $11.98, the cheapest around.  I picked up Abbey Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper.  I had a $10 gift card from a recent prescription promotion.  That brought the price down to $40 (tax brought it up to $50). 

I then went to Best Buy and used a Reward Zone $20 voucher on the White Album and Past Masters, both two-CD sets.  Best Buy was out of the box sets but did have the single album "mini-crates" that were $24.  Came with a shirt, the CD and a plastic crate.  Cool but no thanks.  So I took my voucher to the checkout and paid $10 for both discs as Past Masters was marked down to $12.99.  I then went back to Target and picked up Beatles for Sale for $3.50 with my two gift cards.

So in all, I got the nine CDs of remastered Beatles, seven albums, for about $55.  Not a bad day.

Now on to Rock Band with my new, used extra microphone so the wonderful lady of the house and I can harmonize to the band we love.