quoted 6 lines The copies I received were not shrinkwrapped, so I'm> The copies I received were not shrinkwrapped, so I'm
> confused as to what really went down. Some people seem
> to have bought it for $11.99 or so, shrinkwrapped, which
> is great, but they obviously didn't come thru the same
> channels as the ones I bought (could the stores have
> shrinked them?).
i bought one in houston, unwrapped, for $17.91, and it's worth every penny. it
took a few listens, but i am quite enamored of it now.
but onto the import/domestic debate...
it seems as though we have a debate on the meaning of the term "domestic."
someone spoke earlier about how caroline/astralwerks is releasing the import as
a domestic (hold on, let me cull up the original msg.):
Chris Niemitz sez:
quoted 5 lines What I meant to>What I meant to
>say was that It was not being released on Caroline (therefore Caroline
>wouldn't know as much about the release as the people at Astralwerks,
>who had mailed as the post and were in charge of distributing
>the import as a domestic).
im not sure whether or not astralwerks is in charge of importing the cd's, but
if they are distributing the imports over here, then they are still imports.
'domestic' usually refers to cd's being released in the US by an american record
company (one example of a domestic release is the new nirvana, another is also
the domestic release of the FAX cd's on instinct.)
of course the sure fire way to determine import or domestic is to look at the
bar code #. mine is Virgin 40066 (or to be nitpicky, 7243-8-40066-2/4). if
it's domestic and on astralwerks, it would most likely have a four digit #
(61--).
hth, back to the music,
-joanna-
ObNow: nirvana's unplugged, jackhammers, and gunshots