Murray
Well-Known Member
All the "Remastered Classics" CDs that I ever saw in stores here were pressed in the US, and had the import sticker on them. It was probably a lot cheaper for Polygram/Universal to do it that way, rather than a limited domestic production run for catalogue titles that wouldn't have been huge sellers. I was looking on Amazon.ca, at the recent "Herb Alpert Presents" reissue CDs, and they are only available as US imports (yet the titles were officially released in Canada, but only as digital downloads / streaming). This is happening more and more as the market for CDs continues to shrink, especially for back catalogue or niche / heritage artists.But then there are other times, like the UK release of Gold where Canada (Or I should say we were able to get it, but it was an import, and came with the "Special Import" label from Universal Music on the front cover, just like Live In Japan was a "Special Import") never received that album, instead we waited for 3 years until the 2-CD versions that was released in the US was released. Even the 1969-1981 album had the goofy looking version released here in Canada that was released in the US, and to this day I've never seen the other photo on the disc whenever I've seen it for sale here in Canada. Of course Canada has had its small share of Carpenters releases like the 1978 2-record (and 2 different cover) set The Carpenters Collection (The Carpenters Collection (1978) ) and the late-80's Reminiscing.