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When I was in college I found the “Dick Tracy” score (which, at that point, had been out of print for six or seven years) in the Bargain CD Bin at Wal-Mart for $5.
Wal-Mart didn’t have the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory score a few days after it came out, so I’m not partial to that place. Plus I like Target better.
Wal-Mart had a copy of MIDNIGHT RUN for like $3. Bought it, and traded it many years ago for an advance copy of A SIMPLE PLAN. Man, that person made off like a bandit. But I was happy to help them get the CD.
Ryan
Hate me if you so choose, but I can’t help myself, correcting grammar is a bad habit of mine.
A grammatically correct statement would have read:
“I think that it is,” the word “it” being in reference to BestBuy Inc. (note the use of the first parenthetical comma) “for me at least,” (closing of parenthetical statement with second comma) “a great place for getting his DVD’s or CD’s.” I personally recommend replacing the word “getting” with either “finding” or “purchasing”. (Note the use of the period at the end of the sentence.)
(Also note my placing of a period, in the last non-parenthetical sentence of the above paragraph, OUTSIDE the quotation marks surrounding the word “purchasing”. This is because the word in quotations is neither a partial sentence, nor a conclusion to a quote from an actual or fictional person. I feel that it is occasionally grammatically correct to place punctuation outside quotation marks, though this matter is still a matter of hot debate among many English professors and linguists. To be on the safe side, you may want to put commas and periods within closing quotation marks, except when a parenthetical reference follows. People rarely will correct, or even recognise/acknowledge, these mistakes.)
I must ask out of curiosity, how old are you? I usually let most grammatically incorrect statements go without correction, but I am noticing a pattern from you, which is why I ask. I mean no offense whatever your age. For all I know you’re simply too busy to check yourself, or have adopted English as a second language.
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