1.   After the album hit, Vig suddenly was perceived to have the magic touch, and offers flooded in.

2.   Long before this album hit the stores, it was a big record.

3.   Since that multimillion-selling album hit the top of the classical music charts, monks of all stripes have gotten into the act with varying degrees of success.

4.   The album hits consistently harder than anything else the band has created in more than a decade.

5.   The show at Cowboys is his first appearance in Atlanta since the album hit stores, and the honking Kennesaw club may be his kind of place.

6.   The album hits stores Tuesday.

7.   The question remains unanswered just a few days before his make-or-break, career-defining new album hits stores.

8.   Yet another critically praised Grateful Dead album has just hit the stores.