Target exclusive with alternate artwork (green dice cover,different rear photo).
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Lee Wrecker 2nd Jan 2021
| | This is available in Australia and now that Amazon has started selling LPs and CDs in Australia more US releases will be locally available in our marketplace.
So for whatever reason the US releases of this album are the Australian releases also. Makes, or perhaps marks a change from the EU versions of releases hitting our shores.
Amazon has only begun its LP sales and distribution in Australia after our government slapped a tax on importing items directly from any Amazon outlet overseas 2-3 years ago and the US parent company then stopped exporting CDs and LPs (among other things) to Australia. Before that I used to buy a lot of music from the US as there was far more available than through our local EU sourced outlets.
So now we, in this country, have a mixture of EU and USA produced music freely available locally. This week's ARIA chart lists the US white dice version of this album at no.21. The not so exclusive to Barnes & Noble blue vinyl edition and this so called exclusive CD version are also available here. So for a change it seems the EU releases are exactly that and specific to the EU whereas the USA releases are all international. Except, of course, for the Third Man recycled vinyl edition.
The local availability of this USA made version of this album and incursion of Amazon into our market signal a shift to the previously usual practise of the major labels sourcing product primarily from the EU. Cheaper to ship from the USA no doubt. Now have you got all of that, there'll be a test you know. The bigger test, as always, will be how do we deal with this on the site because we have no idea how to track and document national catalogues in the current global marketplace. |
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Quad5point1 ● 2nd Jan 2021
| | I think it would be a bit of a crapshoot if you find anything genuinely collectible from this release, it might be a case of snake eyes for this one. |
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Quad5point1 ● 2nd Jan 2021
| | Album Art Exclusive!!! So if you collect the sleeves this album has something for everybody, or maybe that should read "every sucker" ;-) |
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Magic Marmalade 31st Dec 2020
| | It's just unreasonable!
(And how come the other scan here has a green dice? ... is that a slipcase? ... are you telling me it's even more intricate still, by virtue of having manifold coloured dice covers in manifold dice coloured cases?!!!) |
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Quad5point1 ● 30th Dec 2020
| | He's been taking the whatsits for about 20 years now. I couldn't help but notice the album Run Devil Run must've been a real earner for him. I had the boxed 7" singles issue bought to me and every song was copyright to MPL. There wasn't a song on it he didn't own. And just look at the bewildering array of different issues for Egypt Station. I stopped buying his stuff after Flowers In The Dirt and won't buy another of his albums until he gets around to mixing them in Surround, but TBH I think he's keeping that card up his sleeve until he really really needs some more millions to top up his bank balance. As for touring, he should've packed that up years ago, some of his live performances are absolutely cringeworthy |
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Magic Marmalade 30th Dec 2020
| | Good grief... how many variants of this new album of his are there?!!!
Taking the whatsits! |
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JPGR&B SUBS 30th Dec 2020
| | No. 1 in the Top 50 CD albums viewed yesterday. |
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sailorsam 25th Dec 2020
| | Main image taken from Target web page as I usually leave the shrink on my CDs. |
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