A Question About the Rhinos

[Ypsilanti]

I've been buying the Rhinos, one by one, as my budget permits. I love the liner notes and the bonus material. Last year I got Brutal Youth and was surprised to find the artwork on the disks had been printed incorrectly--the main disk and the bonus disk were switched (if I play the main disk, I hear the bonus songs and vice versa). Last week I got Blood & Chocolate and it has the same problem. They sound fine, but it's confusing.

What's up with this? Seems like a pretty huge error, especially to have it happen twice (and maybe more are like this--I don't have the complete set yet). Does anyone know?

[And No Coffee Table]

Mine are the same way, and there are plenty of other reports of the same problem with those two titles (and only those two titles).

[Jack of All Parades]

Ypsilanti, I was fortunate to purchase the individual Rhino double reissues as they were individually released years ago. Never encountered a problem with any of the discs. Would seem there is at least an unfortunate anomoly in the two cds you and the previous poster cite.

[ulfg]

My Rhino "Brutal Youth" is incorrect. My "Blood And Chocolate" is correct.

[The Gentleman]

Not all the copies are incorrect. I know my copies are fine.

[Ypsilanti]

Thanx Everybody! It's good to know.

I happen to work in the printing industry (billboards, not CDs) and part of my job is quality control. So it bugs me when things are printed wrong. If I let a mistake of that magnitude out of the shop undetected--and then did it again--I'd be worse than fired. I think they'd take me out and shoot me or something.

[sulky lad]

. I think they'd take me out and shoot me or something.

from Ypsilanti
If your colleagues had eyesight that made these sort of mistakes, they'd probably miss !!

[woz]

Wow, and all these years I thought it was Elvis trying to be sneaky. Kind of like when he (and many others) placed comments at then end of an actual vinyl lp. (Forgive me, I forgot the technical term for the space where an album's grooves end and the label begins.)

Cheers.

[chickendinna]

I believe it's the run out groove, but I could be wrong

[The Gentleman]

Changing the subject a bit, looking at Amazon, it appears from the price of new copies, the Rhino editions of the CDs from EC's Columbia years have escalated in value (most of them quite a bit):

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1268158554/ ... 668&page=1

Are the Warner Brother-era reissues still in print? Most are available at list price directly from Amazon. As a division of WB, it certainly makes sense that Rhino would retain the rights to them after EC moved the rest of his catalog to Universal, but I had been under the impression that all of the Rhinos had gone out of print.

[And No Coffee Table]

Based on Amazon's listings and checking other online retailers, it looks like they're all out of print, but Amazon has yet to run out of copies of Mighty Like A Rose, Kojak Variety, and The Juliet Letters.

Spike, Brutal Youth, and All This Useless Beauty are still available at fairly reasonable prices through Amazon, but they're all from third-party sellers.