Just picked up my copy of "HITNRUN: Phase One" at my local Target a few minutes ago!

I had a sneaking suspicion that even though I found a stack of them on the endcap with this week's releases, they were going to scan it and tell me it wasn't supposed to be out and that I couldn't buy it yet. This particular Target is notorious for making this mistake.

Sure enough, the check out lady scans it, starts looking at it funny and then says: this isn't supposed to come out until Monday.

I am not leaving that Target without this CD. I'm one of those fans in his early 40s who won't subscribe to Tidal and wants the hardcopy CD. I leaned over to my wife and warned her that I would be shoplifitng a copy of the CD if they wouldn't sell it to me. It even had a tag on the shelf for a now-ridiculous price of $16.99 and I was willing to pay THAT for it.

You guys will enjoy this...I break out my iPhone, log into prince.org and show her pictures of the kiosk of CDs that one of you posted earlier. "Look," I tell her. "This thing is already avaialble at other retail outlets. And it's been available online for about a week now."

She scans it again and says it's going on sale for $13.99 on Monday, then asks me: "You're not planning to return this, are you?" "No way in hell," I reply. "Okay, because I have to scan it as a miscelaneous item to sell it to you, and I'll give it to you for $13.99."

After I tell her thank you five times, she mutters under her breath: "This is the same thing that happened earlier with those Prince t-shirts. I hope someone already pulled those until Monday."

Guess I'm headed back to Target on Monday for a Prince t-shirt. In the meantime, I'm set. Throwing the disc in the player now!

[Edited 9/12/15 13:09pm]

Kacey725 said:

Just picked up my copy of "HITNRUN: Phase One" at my local Target a few minutes ago!

I had a sneaking suspicion that even though I found a stack of them on the endcap with this week's releases, they were going to scan it and tell me it wasn't supposed to be out and that I couldn't buy it yet. This particular Target is notorious for making this mistake.

Sure enough, the check out lady scans it, starts looking at it funny and then says: this isn't supposed to come out until Monday.

I am not leaving that Target without this CD. I'm one of those fans in his early 40s who won't subscribe to Tidal and wants the hardcopy CD. I leaned over to my wife and warned her that I would be shoplifitng a copy of the CD if they wouldn't sell it to me. It even had a tag on the shelf for a now-ridiculous price of $16.99 and I was willing to pay THAT for it.

You guys will enjoy this...I break out my iPhone, log into prince.org and show her pictures of the kiosk of CDs that one of you posted earlier. "Look," I tell her. "This thing is already avaialble at other retail outlets. And it's been available online for about a week now."

She scans it again and says it's going on sale for $13.99 on Monday, then asks me: "You're not planning to return this, are you?" "No way in hell," I reply. "Okay, because I have to scan it as a miscelaneous item to sell it to you, and I'll give it to you for $13.99."

After I tell her thank you five times, she mutters under her breath: "This is the same thing that happened earlier with those Prince t-shirts. I hope someone already pulled those until Monday."

Guess I'm headed back to Target on Monday for a Prince t-shirt. In the meantime, I'm set. Throwing the disc in the player now!

[Edited 9/12/15 13:09pm]

Classic! Thanks for sharing the story.

KingSausage said:

Kacey725 said:

Just picked up my copy of "HITNRUN: Phase One" at my local Target a few minutes ago!

I had a sneaking suspicion that even though I found a stack of them on the endcap with this week's releases, they were going to scan it and tell me it wasn't supposed to be out and that I couldn't buy it yet. This particular Target is notorious for making this mistake.

Sure enough, the check out lady scans it, starts looking at it funny and then says: this isn't supposed to come out until Monday.

I am not leaving that Target without this CD. I'm one of those fans in his early 40s who won't subscribe to Tidal and wants the hardcopy CD. I leaned over to my wife and warned her that I would be shoplifitng a copy of the CD if they wouldn't sell it to me. It even had a tag on the shelf for a now-ridiculous price of $16.99 and I was willing to pay THAT for it.

You guys will enjoy this...I break out my iPhone, log into prince.org and show her pictures of the kiosk of CDs that one of you posted earlier. "Look," I tell her. "This thing is already avaialble at other retail outlets. And it's been available online for about a week now."

She scans it again and says it's going on sale for $13.99 on Monday, then asks me: "You're not planning to return this, are you?" "No way in hell," I reply. "Okay, because I have to scan it as a miscelaneous item to sell it to you, and I'll give it to you for $13.99."

After I tell her thank you five times, she mutters under her breath: "This is the same thing that happened earlier with those Prince t-shirts. I hope someone already pulled those until Monday."

Guess I'm headed back to Target on Monday for a Prince t-shirt. In the meantime, I'm set. Throwing the disc in the player now!

[Edited 9/12/15 13:09pm]

I think you should consider buying a lottery ticket today, the planet seems to be perfectly aligned for you right now.

BartVanHemelen said:

Well-remembered!
I'll never forget the first sight of that symbol logo.

It was so annoying too because the shop wasn't open when I saw it in the window but by the time I got back to pick it up, the city had already been flyposted and that evening before I got home to play the CD, my local post-work imbibing emporium was playing it LOUD.
Exciting times but, again, people were saying it was the worst thing he'd ever done.

McD said:

Didn't the Symbol album in 1992 just show up in stores one Monday morning without any warning or pre-announced release date?

garneren said:

Has anybody heard any rumours about a vinyl release? Also, I really hope those remasters will feature gems and outtakes from the vault - and aren't "just" remasters...

wondering this too. Hopefully another vinyl release is coming, was so happy to get AOA and PE on wax

BartVanHemelen said:

thedoorkeeper said:

I have this theory that the CD will be in stores on September 15th with no advance notice.

.

Which isn't possible.

Possible.

Being released SEPT 14 in stores.

nf0603 said:

garneren said:

Has anybody heard any rumours about a vinyl release? Also, I really hope those remasters will feature gems and outtakes from the vault - and aren't "just" remasters...

wondering this too. Hopefully another vinyl release is coming, was so happy to get AOA and PE on wax

I read an article - can't find it now - in my blitz of HitNRun review reading a few days ago, and at the bottom it said something like Hit N Run is out on Tidal, and in stores on CD. Didn't mention vinyl, but other reviews on the same site for different albums said stuff like out now on iTunes, CD and Vinyl. So I assumed there may not be a vinyl or even iTunes release planned (at least at the time the article was written)

[Edited 9/12/15 14:44pm]

I'm in Alpharetta, GA- north of Atlanta. My Target had them, I had it in my hand, went to the register- and of course the register won't let the kid ring it up. He and the manger apologized and gave me "apology coupons". I told them they better get the whole shelf full before somebody else comes in to try to buy it.

Kacey725 said:

Just picked up my copy of "HITNRUN: Phase One" at my local Target a few minutes ago!

I had a sneaking suspicion that even though I found a stack of them on the endcap with this week's releases, they were going to scan it and tell me it wasn't supposed to be out and that I couldn't buy it yet. This particular Target is notorious for making this mistake.

Sure enough, the check out lady scans it, starts looking at it funny and then says: this isn't supposed to come out until Monday.

I am not leaving that Target without this CD. I'm one of those fans in his early 40s who won't subscribe to Tidal and wants the hardcopy CD. I leaned over to my wife and warned her that I would be shoplifitng a copy of the CD if they wouldn't sell it to me. It even had a tag on the shelf for a now-ridiculous price of $16.99 and I was willing to pay THAT for it.

You guys will enjoy this...I break out my iPhone, log into prince.org and show her pictures of the kiosk of CDs that one of you posted earlier. "Look," I tell her. "This thing is already avaialble at other retail outlets. And it's been available online for about a week now."

She scans it again and says it's going on sale for $13.99 on Monday, then asks me: "You're not planning to return this, are you?" "No way in hell," I reply. "Okay, because I have to scan it as a miscelaneous item to sell it to you, and I'll give it to you for $13.99."

After I tell her thank you five times, she mutters under her breath: "This is the same thing that happened earlier with those Prince t-shirts. I hope someone already pulled those until Monday."

Guess I'm headed back to Target on Monday for a Prince t-shirt. In the meantime, I'm set. Throwing the disc in the player now!

[Edited 9/12/15 13:09pm]

Will be heading to my local Target monday morning!

misiu said:

Heya, what's the booklet like, photos, lyrics?

fabriziovenerandi said:

jaawwnn said:

When was the last time he had one of those for an album? The Vault?

Rave in2 maybe

I think the One Nite Alone...Live! and The Aftershow: It Ain't Over were the last officially released jewel cases (not counting Ultimate Prince in 2006).

renfield said:

Amazon U.S, finally has a page up for the HitNRun album, unfortunately right now it's just a third party seller offering the pricey U.K. import. Hopefully Monday we'll see the proper U.S. release offered directly from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Pri...ce+HitNRun

BartVanHemelen said:

thedoorkeeper said:

I have this theory that the CD will be in stores on September 15th with no advance notice.

.

Which isn't possible.

I guess it's possible since it's available at Walmart in the US.

Polo1026 said:

ThirdStrike said:

tatocorcu said:

It's available on iTunes UK now. And they've taken the price of This Could B us (which I had already bought) off the total, which is nice.

So hopefully it'll be on US iTunes Monday morning! I'd rather iTunes than a CD to be honest, so I don't have to rip it.

Just paid for mine on iTunes UK. Got an HQ rip from Tidal on my phone already, so not sure if I'll ever listen to the iTunes one but it's nice to be able to chuck some money P's way for it.