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Old 2014.03.21, 05:59 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by zordon View Post
On Tower Records website I've found out that the limited edition has slightly different catalog number than normal version
Woah, let me stop you right there.

A true limited edition really would have its own catalog number, so you might suppose Tower Records is providing evidence to suggest there is such an edition, but you don't know Tower Records.

There is no 'limited' edition. There is only first-press and second-press, where early buyers paid the same price for first-press as anyone could pay for second-press today. In the real world, those always have the same catalog number. When Tower Records recognizes a first-press, they come up with their own catalog number for it, but this number is unique to Tower Records, not because they have an exclusive product, but because it's just their workaround for the fact that their inventory system can't use the exact same catalog number to keep track of how many first-press versus second-press copies they have. So in their system, Tower Records adds an X or something to the original catalog number, and they use that to give first-press its own separate product page.

Real limited editions have different digits, or a different prefix. They don't just match the regular edition's catalog number but have an X on the end. Victor, EMI, and most other record labels don't do that. The catalog number you found is nothing but a virtual construct among Tower Records' product listings, and is not representative of what you would find printed on any of the physical products from Tower Records or from any other vendor.
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