350hunny said:You don't buy The Essential Collection as you already have From The Top.
You don't buy 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection
as you already have all of the selections in it and heard them before.
You don't buy Carpenters Perform Carpenter
for the same reason above.
As for AS TIME GOES BY. well
I bought all of those, and will be buying Carpenters Perform Carpenter as well, plus the DVD 'upgrade' from my LaserDisc of Interpretations.
I think the main complaint is that these are all songs which we've gotten in other forms, while As Time Goes By, the only really NEW stuff in recent years remains unreleased in the US. Still I'm sure that every die-hard Carpenters fan has gotten it from Japan, so even if there were finally a US release, it would go largely ignored, deflating any possible chance at chart success.
Harry
...hoping for even a little a surprise from these new releases, online...