Mickey Finn Posted July 19, 2021 Posted July 19, 2021 One of the Cherry Red reissue stable, Doctor Bird has recently been unearthing and reissuing some great 60s and 70s Jamaican music. It's an impressive and growing catalogue, with many reissued albums packaged with extras new to cd or previously unreleased. However, at least 2 of these titles seem to have fallen victim to bootlegging: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/various-artists-greatest-jamaican-beat-expanded-edition/ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/errol-brown-the-revolutionaries-culture-dub-medley-dub-2cd-expanded-edition/ On Amazon one of the reviewers mentions this about the Culture Dub package, but I've not seen any mentions of this problem anywhere else, despite coming across 2 separately supplied copies of "Greatest Jamaican Beat" that, like the Culture Dub package, comes in what seems to be a reasonably good facsimile of the booklet and inlay, packaged inside a case that looks like it was purchased/acquired from an office supplies stockist (the case has "2cd" printed on it), and containing 2 CDRs with Doctor Bird labelling on one side. The CDRs do not come in a factory sealed package, but are instead contained in a self-adhesive wrap-over see through plastic. And in some cases the package is so poorly put together that the inlay card does not fit properly - from the same seller I got what seem to be 2 genuine CDs inside a box that had a mangled inlay card poking outside it ... possibly the bootleggers had accidentally put the "master copies" in the wrong box. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/roland-alphonso-the-originals-orchestra-abc-rock-steady-expanded-edition/ Is anyone else aware of this problem? Anyone considering buying Doctor Bird reissue cds should not buy from Amazon third party supplier "all your music" (also on ebay)
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