I feel for you and often get the same desire when I see improperly housed snakes in pet stores. However, the problem with actually buying them and taking them home is that in the end, it just gets marked down as a sale and next thing you know, there is another poor baby in the same conditions waiting to be purchased by the next person who feels bad for them. Even getting a discount on it for poor health doesn't help at all, as the store will still look at it as a sale, which means they will continue to keep selling snakes.
I'm glad your little BP is eating and that you are giving him/her a good home. If I were you, I'd check back on the store and see if they still have a bunch of snakes in poor health and this time, file a complaint with your local animal control agency. If you tell them the pet store appears to have a number of snakes that are being neglected and of poor health, they will send an officer out to investigate which could lead to the store being banned from selling reptiles or at least having the current batch confiscated and sent to a real rescue to be nursed back to health and adopted out.
So many big box pet stores treat their reptiles extremely poorly and the only way to get that fixed is to complain. Buying them to "rescue" them only makes the situation worse.
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