Latest Updates - Cyndi Lauper

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Comment by Lee Wrecker:

Hmm...Phil, I see now but nevertheless both you and I know that this series is and has been widely officially available in this country and most likely many others outside the EU. Thanks for the tip on the double up I've sorted that out but it happened when I was trying to put the link in. I had three attempts before giving up. I'm not going to rush out and buy this either but I have admit Cyndi sure can sing. It's just what she sings that's not my bag. The exception to the rule is her version of Funnel Of Love but I think I like nearly every version of that song.

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Comment by PhilMH:

Hi Lee, I've just looked at the Amazon listing and it says "shipped from Amazon UK", so I think it is actually in stock there rather than on these shores. Somehow you have doubled up on your text, but let's see if I can make the URL work here:

EDIT: no, it ain't working for me, neither!

And no, I don't need any copies of this thanks, Lee! I did buy the "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" 45 back in the day, but it's now in my "what was I thinking?" pile!

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Comment by Lee Wrecker:

Hi PhilMH, this is available at the Australian version of the global superstore that is named after a river. In stock and ready to go (I tried to insert a link but it just didn't seem to want to work). How many copies do you want? The EU issue is a bugbear for those of us outside the EU with EU made products that were officially released in other countries. Do we lie and pretend it's only released in the EU or run the gauntlet of trying to have something made international. The second option is a lot more difficult to achieve so I am reluctantly forced to lie. Never mind though as long as the listings are consistent is probably the main thing.

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Comment by PhilMH:

Lee said:

This was released and is still available in Australia

Wellll....Sanity's website lists it as "Backorder", and JB Hi Fi doesn't list it at all, so I doubt very much that it is still available, but I agree that it most likely was locally released in 2008. Sanity gives the release date as 26 July 2008, which was a Saturday; more likely it was released on Friday 25th, and so would have appeared in the Platterlog new release sheet on Monday 28th, but my copy of that is missing from the folder it should be in! (I probably do have it somewhere, but it make take a bit of digging to find it, and that week would have been the last issue that I got, I didn't renew my subscription due to a combination of Platterlog going online and my finances being tight at the time due to my mortgage). You could try the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see if it was listed on Sony's Australian website then, but in my experience usually only the front page of any website has been saved there, and pages underneath are found comparatively rarely. But the last part of your post, Lee - yeah, I share your ongoing frustration that people on this site and others still don't get that "Made In EU" does not necessarily equate to "released only in the EU", and sometimes, like many releases from Ace in England, not released in Continental Europe at all, due to differing license agreements (Fantasy, Stax, etc. being a notable example); the "Made in EU" notation is only there because of an EU directive that any commodity made in the EU has to bear that text, regardless of the actual market, and Ace's latest releases still bear that notation even though the UK is no longer a member state. Also, in recent years, many Sony and Universal releases bear the names "Sony Music International GmbH" or "Universal International Music B.V.", those company divisions co-ordinate the international domestic releases of those products, which are pretty much worldwide except for North America and Japan (but sometimes including those two markets).

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Comment by Lee Wrecker:

This was released and is still available in Australia and I'd imagine a fair chunk of the rest of the world. Very much the same as the rest of the Original Album Classics series. Why is this series always listed as from the EU when from the outset this series has had worldwide distribution. Do I have to lie when entering my CDs from the series and pretend that they are imports that weren't released here?

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Comment by leonard:

Yes very hard work! Especially if you consider you've edited your comment 22 times in only half an hour!

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Comment by okun69:

UK Release Date 20/03/89 (Pg 46)