I spent about three times longer than I assumed I would tracking down today's Blu-ray releases at brick and mortar outlets here in Austin. Here's a cheat sheet for the titles I was after, in case other Austinites are looking for the same stuff.

Fry's Electronics
Mean Streets: $9.99

Waterloo Records
Singin' in the Rain ($17.99 single disc version)
High Noon ($23.99, available Thursday)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 ($23.99, available Thursday)
American Masters: Johnny Carson, King of Late Night ($24.99)

Barnes & Noble
Singin' in the Rain ($17.99 single disc version)
Down By Law ($19.99 Criterion Collection Blu-ray)

That's right, the Blu-ray debut of one of the greatest films of all time, Singin' In the Rain, is unavailable at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart.

I went to Best Buy and left completely empty-handed. They had none of the above titles, with Singin' marked as "online-only".

Best Buy does have a retailer-exclusive version of Get the Gringo that includes a half hour of additional extras not found on the standard edition. In the interest of full disclosure, I produced the premiere event for Gringo a few months ago here in Austin.