Don Satz wrote: >... the manager eventually said something definitive - "if you >insist on continuing, I'l have to ask you to leave." I told him there was >no point in my being at the store if I could not peruse the new releases. >He said, "you'll have to leave then." I got up and left saying, "I've spent >thousands of dollars in this store over the past year. Now you won't get >an additional cent." Right, what does he care? Border's is usually careful not to sell a new recording before the official release date. Universal Music is very strict about sales before the release date. I say usually because I picked up the only copy of the new Mahler Ninth by the Cleveland Orchestra at Borders a day before the actual release date. Anyway, that could be a justifiable reason why the sales clerk hovered over you. Mark