45worlds Forum - View Single Post - When is a foreign issue not?

17th Aug 2015, 6:19 PM
	TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points	I think there are two different issues being discussed here and it's confusing matters. The first issue is whether a given country's records, when shipped abroad for sale, should be listed as the original country (in this case, USA). As a general rule, the answer would be yes. I have bought US albums brand new in the UK, and listed them here as US releases, which I believe is correct. The key point is that the whole product is packed and sent over as it would have appeared in its home country. The second issue, which is significant, is whether the insertion of a US record into a Canadian sleeve makes it into a Canadian edition. This is where we seem to disagree. To me, the process of printing and using Canadian sleeves makes it a Canadian edition. When you buy a record you don't just buy a piece of vinyl, but a sleeve as well, and the package has therefore been altered specifically for the Canadian market. The fact that the vinyl was pressed in the US doesn't change that. What the record on the site seems to be, to my eyes, is a Canadian release of the US album, which in this example, happened to be exported to the UK. The sleeve makes it Canadian, the fact that it was sold in the UK does not affect that, as it is simply the product one would have found in Canada, but exported. Edited by TopPopper on 17th Aug 2015, 10:04 PM