Good riddance.

The PMRC was only effective because large retailers (Target, Walmart, Tower) could be pressured by religious groups not to carry albums with the PMRC sticker. It was the retailers that permitted conservatives to de-facto censor culture.

Target has greatly reduced its music presence over the years. Once upon a time carried as many as 800 music titles, and nowadays seems to carry less than 100 titles in most stores. Yet, it can still be a powerful force on big titles. For example, the chain moved over 500,000 CDs of Taylor Swift's Reputation album.

If you're listening to music you can buy at Target you need to broaden your horizons. You have always needed to broaden your horizons. Last year, Bandcamp had approximately 18,000 titles for sale... if you only count releases that were also available on mutherfuckin' cassette.

Meanwhile, sources say that Target has demanded to music suppliers that it wants to be sold on what amounts to a consignment basis. Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it is shipped within 60 days, and must pay to ship back unsold CDs for credit. With consignment, the inventory risk shifts back to the labels.

The manufacturing cost of a CD, if you're a naif in your dorm room willing to pay retail, is less than $3 ea. If you're one of those 100 titles it's more like 70 cents... in 1995. Books have been sold this way for a century or more and the reproduction costs on a book are an order of magnitude higher than for a CD.

Let them rot.