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Bobby:

I've been away form the board for several days now, sorry I didn't see your post earlier about the Hardee's list. Anyway, thanks for the link--great work, buddy.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys! And, John, I'll see about making the Berkley location this summer, thanks for the tip. Funny, though, from the road the Clawson location looked like it was set up for them to bring it out to your car. I was assuming they did. Oh well.

OFF-TOPIC WARNING!!!!....

Btw, I don't like Thomas Video now near as much as I used to. For two reasons:

1) All the really good, primo used cult/horror videos and laserdiscs, which were the main reasons I used to go there, have all been pretty much picked over now by savvy collectors and ebay sellers. You can dig as much as you like through all the used tapes and LDs now and you won't find near the amount of hidden (and sometimes valuable!) gems you used to routinely find there 3 or 4 years ago. That place used to be a goldmine for me! Now it's just all picked over. And if you know the "good stuff" and you know what they used to have there, you can tell. Heck, now they list ALL their used tapes and LDs on the web, for crying out loud! Not good for video store treasure hunters like me. Yep, ebay and the web killed the video star.

2) Their prices, whether it be a dusty old, beaten-up used video of ANY movie (that would go for a dollar or two on ebay or at the flea market, as they used to at Thomas Video!), a USED DVD (that you could get on ebay for $10 or less), or a new, factory-sealed DVD that you could get at nearly any department or entertainment store like Best Buy, Target, or Circuit City for under $20, are almost always outrageously marked-up! Truly bargain-bin "$1" tapes are usually $14--20(!). Used DVDs are priced very near the retail price of a new one (or higher!). New DVDs are almost always $24.99 or more, when you can get the same ones anywhere else for $17.99 (or less!) in most cases if you just hit a couple mainstream stores. Their prices are just too high, period. I've went there many times over the past couple of years (Saturday is a good example) excited to look through their decidely horror/cult-slanted selection of DVDs, and indeed found many titles I had been looking for locally and wanting to pick up really badly, only to walk out with absolutely nothing to show for it (even though I had plenty of money to burn for the trip and intended to buy stuff), simply because I will not be gouged like that. No way. I've literally went home numerous times recently, and found the same DVDs at Amazon or wherever, or on ebay, for much, much less, and bought them there--receiving most in time for next weekend or close to it.

They make it really, really hard to want to actually buy videos or DVDs there anymore.