Hi Phil, this copy is what I received when I ordered it from the Amazon link you provided below. So, this is what you get an EU Parlophone release it may well be distributed by Rhino in the USA but they have nothing to do with its production and no references to Rhino appear on the packaging. I'm for the flags idea too, Phil but we've been through this many times before to no avail. If I had the inclination I could become a MOD and change nearly everything to international just to prove a point but there's no value in that. We really do still need to grapple with this issue as tiresome as it is because it will eventually render the site next to useless if everyone has their own method of entering items.
The "just bang 'em in and they'll sort themselves out" method we're using now is not working and will be a disaster in the long run. Things are not sorting themselves out at all in fact there is little to no consistency in this regard and everyone seems to have their own approach and the site is just getting messier and messier. I entered this album and could have legitimately, depending on who you talk to, entered it either as an EU or international release. That is just too confusing for me and other site users. When it was approved as an entry at the MOD stage a decision should have been made one way or another. Whoever MODDED this entry should have had to make a decision and not just gone along with whatever I thought at the time because as it is sometimes I go one way and sometimes the other depending on how I feel at the time. I am never consistent though and personally I don't like it - swaying one way or another with whatever the current temperature is on the site.
Hi Lee, I would say almost certainly so: Amazon's page shows the labels as Rhino/Parlophone, which makes sense for the USA, as Rhino is handling Parlophone's back catalogue (which encompasses UA as well as many other labels) there, although it doesn't appear on Rhino's current website. It also shows the release date as 23 February 2016 (Tuesday) rather than 26th (Friday, the worldwide new release day adopted by most record companies in July 2015). No joy on Warner Music's Australian website, but that tends to ignore most of their back catalogue. Nothing on JB HIFi or Sanity's sites either, but that may simply mean that they are not stocking it.
As far as I'm aware, most vinyl reissues these days are pressed by GZ Media (Czech Republic), Pallas (Germany) or RTI (USA) for worldwide or near-worldwide distribution, but it's one of those things that's hard to prove one way or the other. I think as a general guide, if it can be found in any regular release music store (rather than a independent store) in any country, and doesn't have a "Special Import" or similar sticker attached to it (as I have seen in JB here and HMV in the UK), it would be reasonable to assume that it is distributed in that country by the relevant record company. I would say - again! - to our Northern Hemisphere friends that "Made in EU" does not necessarily mean released only in the EU, and by extension, the absence of a distribution credit for a particular country does not necessarily mean it wasn't distributed in that country; concepts that some people seem unwilling or unable to grasp (not just on 45Worlds, but on the other sites too).
I still don't know whether there's a "perfect" solution to these country conundrums, but I am still inclined towards multiple country-of-release flags, if that is technically doable. A country of manufacture field I am a bit dubious of, because a particular local record company's initial stock of a CD might emanate from Germany, say, and then further stocks might come from Austria, Netherlands, UK, Australia, wherever. In some cases, country of manufacture would give a false impression (examples: the many US & Canadian London releases made in the UK or Netherlands, UK Ace releases made in France or Germany, US Ichiban LPs made in Mexico, and so on), so whatever method is adopted, country of release should continue to be the determining factor.
I might have a go at the triple gatefold double sided fold out sleeve later but I have added scans of all the places any catalogue numbers etc. appear. By the way this re-issue sounds great.