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15th Oct 2013, 10:59 AM
	thatsunday Member since Dec 2012 4569 Points Moderator	I totally agree with Janie. These stickered releases were available in Germany, like thousands of other imports, but technically they should stay UK only. In the 70s/80s all german major labels had departments for importing records,from their own labels or third parties. For example: IMS = Polygram EMI ASD Intercord Record Service BISS= Bellaphon ARIS= Ariola TIS= Teldec Some put stickers with catalogue numbers on the records (ARIS, but sometimes with their own import numbers sequences), some used generic stickers (Intercord on dozens Cherry Red releases), some did nothing to mark the imports. If I peel off an ARIS sticker, what do I have? An UK release, nothing more or less. If we take this "on sale in a country means it should be entered for this country too" idea to the extreme: some labels (Roadrunner in the 80s for example) printed all their worldwide distributors names on the back sleeves. Sometimes up to 20 companies. I assume nobody wants an identical releases to be on the database 20 times?

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