Agreed. Like I said I have 2 Targets within a mile or so of house and I haven't gotten to either one. And one is 100 yards or so from a Barnes & Noble and I still haven't made the effort.
None of these were marked down in any of the stores I visited. I mostly saw Rumours, Born In The USA, James Taylor's Greatest Hits, Eagles GH Vol. 1, What's Goin' On, a few Zeppelin titles including IV which was the single disc LP marked down to $27.99 from $34.99! Then I found out these copies were pressed with Jimmy Page's tears.
Katy Perry SMILE LP (blue vinyl) w/bonus track $7.49 Gibb Brothers 2LP (sea glass color vinyl) Songbook $7.79 Elvis Presley LP (clear snowflake vinyl) Classic Christmas Album $5.39 Carrie Underwood LP (white vinyl) My Gift $19 (seems like it should have been discounted more) (maybe better discounts at other locations)
Saw a couple of those yesterday, as well as picture disc of Britney Spears first LP for $7.xx and Beyoncé’s album (one where she looks like an expressionless mannequin on the cover) for $8-9. Didn’t buy any.
Forgot to mention - it was mentioned in another Target related thread - but there was a copy of a Target exclusive Bob Marley’s Exodus bundle (the album and a L size t-shirt). A shelf tag had the Target exclusive Exodus for $11.99, but it wasn’t clear whether there was a non-bundle “just album” Target exclusive Exodus or it was referring to the bundle. The bundle scanned at $39.99 at one of those self-check scanners, but I would think you could snap a pic of the shelf tag and get someone to price override it to the $11.99. I already have Exodus, so didn’t pursue it, though a Marley t-shirt would have been fun enough.
Are these LPs in a special sale section, and are they within the record section or somewhere else? Do they have the sale price listed on the LPs? I brought a Gibb Brothers Songbook to a cashier, and was told it's $26.
It does vary by location, but recently I've found you have to hunt for the "clearance section" which is typically close by the normal section. It's usually on an endcap or on the end aisle (where all the other aisles terminate/meet) and there's usually a mishmash of books, video games, records all together and marked with clearance stickers. When they had a larger clearance of quite a few LPs, they were also in a different section, but in that case, it wasn't on an endcap with other types of items (as I think there were too many LPs to fit in a miscellaneous clearance section). The best thing is to ask a sales associate and they can usually point you in the right direction. If someone says they don't know, ask another.
Got the following from Target the last few weeks: Exodus: $11.99 GoGo’s Greatest: $6.59 Gibb Bros: $7.59 Britney Pic disc: $11.99 Stax Sampler: $10.59
Great info but i've personally had horrible experience trusting any Target or especially Walmart employee to point me in the direction of anything that's not blatantly obvious. I know my local Target had one close by the Vinyl section which I asked an employee when all these sales started if there were any more clearance sections that might have records.. He bluntly told me that the one I looked at was the only one for music. I went back a few months later and found out there was another one kind of hidden a bit about 10 isles the opposite direction which I missed and they supposedly have had for quite awhile (Found a Rolling Stones in there but it looked heavily picked over). Worst of all this is where they usually put all the clearance vinyl a different employee told me Who knows what I missed out on but i'd suggest looking a bit yourself or asking a second employee somewhere else even if you do get an answer. I told that original employee about the second spot and he just said "oh true" and walked the opposite direction...
AC/DC Highway To Hell LPs were $7 and some change at my store. Eagles Greatest Hits was $4.99. The UPC was coming up as an unknown item, so the associate priced it at $4.99. That was fine by me. About a month or two ago, at a local Target, Bob Marley's Exodus box w/ t-shirt was under $20. They sold out of them. This past week, the same store had about 5 copies of the box and they were all priced at their normal price. It's completely hit or miss.
I checked these three and the newest AC/DC at a store last night - all were full price. I actually got the Go-Go's LP for the clearance price last month at a different store but figured I'd check.
Same thing for me, right down to getting Go-Go’s at a different store LOL. I’m going to hit up that store later today to see if the others are marked down there now. I’m itching for that Stax comp.
Same here. I was in one store last month that had probably 15 of them and I was surprised that they weren't on clearance.
I was at my local target this afternoon and the Christmas albums were all on clearance. One that stood out was Steve Perry at $12.49 which is a decent price that very well could go lower if they sit on these for much longer. I got a copy during the holiday season for $15 & change and it was barely worth that as the album is practically EP length. Still, for $12.49, I'd buy it in a heartbeat if I didn't own it already. Steve Perry – The Season Label: Fantasy – FAN01511 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Red Country: US Released: Nov 5, 2021 Genre: Pop Style:
This isn’t a Target exclusive, but… I just saw the Bad Brains Live at CBGB’s 1982 LP in Target. What the hell is going on in this world???!!! :—)
WOW. I would bet that was something ordered online and then returned to the store. I have found similarly odd (for Target!) titles are one of the stores by me pretty often—Vanessa Paradis, Isobel Campbell, etc.
Very good point...I never thought about it being a return. Vanessa and Isobel are excellent finds for a Target!
While it may be online ordered items being returned in some cases, it's apparently something else at least at Walmart. I found the Barnes & Noble Doors 13 blue splatter exclusive at a local Wal-Mart last year and just last week I found Def Leppard's red High N Dry and a copy of Eminem's Slim Shady Urban Outfitters purple exclusive from 2019...at Walmart! At Target last month I found the colored versions of Wings Over America and U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. One other thing is one local Target had some non-Christmas related albums in the clearance section. Got the 4LP Sheryl Crow at the Ryman for $8.39.
Check out your local TARGET for clearance christmas LPs. Ebay has some discounted LPs, so there's probably some markdowns at Target. Norah Jones Kacey Musgrave Pistol Annie Motown 1's