The Smiths: soft pack CD album reissues - due December 6 onwards (December 5, 2024)

Showing on HMV as due December 6.
Other sources: December 10.
Amazon UK due December 6.
Also looking like it can be imported via Amazon.com for those Stateside later in December.
Regards,
FWD.

 

[DrStatham]

Time to buy them all then feel deeply ashamed about it

 

[Cornflakes]

The rep I deal with implied they can reissue/stock existing products without permission and in perpetuity.

Yes. Nobody buys an artist's back catalogue without permission to issue re-releases.

 

[SuedeMoz]

I'd be interested if we were talking vinyl reissues... without changing tracklistings of course...

 

[Tammy Waynette]

Oooooooo, I know what I'm NOT buying.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

 

[ALLIE WALLS]

Slip them into different sleeves. Buy both and feel deceived.

Someone had to didnt they !

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

All listed as “temporarily out of stock” on Amazon too.

 

[sander]

Anyone interested in these, should track down the Japanese mini LP cd’s instead. Properly cropped covers and the attention to detail is insane. Rank has the mini poster…

I believe they came out when I happened to be in Tokyo in 2009. I was able to buy them all at once (including the Jobriath titles) at a Tower. There went all my money

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The Box looks great, never seen one before

 

[Ste Wriggers]

Pretty cool. God just look at that album art and think of what's on each one. What a majestic, miraculous run they had.

These albums must still sell by the bucket load judging by the number of re-issues the record companies have put out over the years. It could have kept the original Rough Trade Records & Distribution from going bankrupt if they'd hung on to the Smiths catalogue.
As it was said at the time of Geoff Travis and by Morrissey all along summed up in You Just Haven't Earned it Yet, Baby...
Mismanagement is Murder.

 

[sparacus]

Utterly pointless reissues. These card sleeves are shoddy and cheap. No extra tracks or remastering. This is presumably a record company decision. Although Morrissey solo albums have also been reissued in this poor manner.

 

[Henricus]

The Smiths generally don't sound that good on cd.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

These should be in a music shop near you now. Buy, buy, buy!

 

[Ashley_TakeABow]

Soft packs? As in.. cardboard? I never like getting a new CD and it comes in one of these. So flimsy. Plus they don't look good on a display shelf from the side... Too thin. Whyyyy?!

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

Soft packs? As in.. cardboard? I never like getting a new CD and it comes in one of these. So flimsy. Plus they don't look good on a display shelf from the side... Too thin. Whyyyy?!

I've re-arranged some CDs so that all the cardboard sleeves are grouped together, and it's much more pleasing on the eye. I do prefer a standard plastic case, but these still look pretty good.

 

[Mozzer1980]

Soft packs? As in.. cardboard? I never like getting a new CD and it comes in one of these. So flimsy. Plus they don't look good on a display shelf from the side... Too thin. Whyyyy?!

Same . I hate soft packs , cardboards , digipacks etc etc
To hell with it !!!

 

[Ashley_TakeABow]

I've re-arranged some CDs so that all the cardboard sleeves are grouped together, and it's much more pleasing on the eye. I do prefer a standard plastic case, but these still look pretty good.

I would do that, but I really like to keep the artists CDs together, in chronological order!

 

[Patrick Stump]

I have one of these and I must say the quality is awfully bad. Perhaps I could have had gotten the rotten one from that batch but none the less, not worth the money. The covers for "Hateful of Hollow" and "The World Won't Listen" are badly cropped, they could've fit the whole cover in (Plus Meat is murder is not "accurate"). Besides nitpicking on the covers, the material is flimsy and soft. I much prefer the hard covers. And I could probably go on forever, but in general just am not a fan of these. Either than the covers i'd say that the audio is fairly well.

 

[Famous when dead]

This is just Warner cashing in on albums that have sold reasonably well over the years depending on what film, social media outlet et al piques interest at the time. Look to their increase of Official Smiths posts on FB, YT shorts and IG...
Morrissey and Marr will have no say with these - exactly like the vinyl versions Warner has been restocking recently.
CDs have been resurging again.
As for plastic, there's less and less being released using cases like that.
Most (maybe all?) of the bits I've bought this year have been soft pack.
I guess it won't be the same as standing outside an indie record shop waiting in 1983, but if it gives the next set of collectors some excitement - why not?
FWD.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

They’re cheap, look good, and fit in with the likes of the Your Arsenal and Kill Uncle re-releases.
BOOYAH.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

I would do that, but I really like to keep the artists CDs together, in chronological order!

I do, too. But these cardboard sleeves were just making things look untidy, so an executive decision was made.