Re: This Woman's Work

[Ulrich Grepel <uli@zoodle.robin.de>]

Hi!

During recovering work of my system (which crashed a couple of weeks ago)
I found the following letter which I did send you short before the crash
and which (I believe) did not go out anymore.

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Hello Michel!

> I want to buy the cd's 'This Woman's Work' Vol. 1 & 2.
> However, as you probably know, these cd's are only sold
> as a box including (I think) the six 'conventional' cd's,
> which I already have :-)
> The cd salesman is willing to sell the two cd's TWW seperately
> if the other cd's are exactly the same as the 'conventional'
> ones (including 'books').
> Does anybody know if this is the case ?

This depends on the country of origin of the box:

UK release:
   The 6 regular CDs look pretty much normal. Complete booklets, same cover
   art, same CD design as the regular UK versions. Except that nowadays the
   UK Kate CDs are Nice-Price CDs.
Japanese release:
   I don't know the regular Japanese issues, I only got a reissued The Dreaming
   CD from Japan and the boxed set. The reissued CD is a bad_job[tm] with regard
   to reproducing the cover art. The boxed set CDs are all pretty and nice,
   complete lyrics in Japanese and English, additional stuff in Japanese as
   well. But the CDs are definitely a special run for the boxed set, since
   the catalog numbers on the CDs and the spines of the albums are all
   special catalog numbers for the boxed set, which is also visible for a
   non-expert, since there are numbers from (1) to (8) on the spines (the
   numbers appear within a circle).
Canadian release:
   Again, I do not know the regular Canadian releases, but the boxed set CDs
   in some cases lack the lyrics.
French release:
   From the outside it looks like an English box with two additional stickers.
   I haven't been able to look inside the box. (It's standing shrink-wrapped
   in a shop for years now, and it's too damn expensive to buy a third boxed
   set for about $200.)


Bye,

Uli



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