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16th Nov 2017, 8:00 PM
	Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2282 Points	Billy Two the prices you mention are eye watering but these really only reflect the band's early Australian very limited releases (500-1000 copies) on the Flightless label. From the fourth album on either Castle Face or ATO in the USA and the Heavenly label in the UK have been releasing their albums as well and these can still be had for regular price or thereabouts. Once again though, the Australian Flightless releases are still the rarest and best. Why? Basically, it's down to this the Flightless limited pressings are just that, limited and not repressed at all and they are usually all sold before the album comes out. These pressings are high quality vinyl and usually laden with gimmicks such as heavy card sleeves, up to 5 different types of coloured vinyl (200-300 of each) for the same album and so on. The USA and UK releases may be limited runs but if they sell out the licencee labels seem to just knock out a different version of the album. Usually with different colour vinyl or some other minor variation and therefore the price of these remains at what you would consider normal retail price. So, I'd say the prices represent rarity rather than popularity. Similar to incidences when an Indie act is picked up by a major label and the major re-releases their back catalogue. Now to the matter at hand here how do we list this kind of release? Do we have a single entry like Discogs has or list each of the myriad of releases separately? I'm in favour of following Discog's lead on this but it could lead to creating a very messy entry. Alternately, if we list them as separate entries we could end up with 100's of entries for the same album. Either way these types of releases will be hard to manage. What do the MODS think we should do about this kind of release? By the way Billy Two, thanks for all the information you have supplied to this thread.