radicalgarden

I agree that it was poorly done. I think they were supposed to be remastered but I didn't really notice a difference. My job involves ordering things from print shops/manufacturers and you have to plan things a long time in advance. It can take months to get the products made, if there isn't a long line ahead of you. Then it takes time to get it out to retail stores...plan advertising etc. I would say at least 4-6 months to be on the safe side, but I don't work for a record label so obviously that's just a somewhat educated guess. (Though I've created and ordered printed products in under a month before - I guess it's possible.) If I remember right I think they were doing those cardboard covers at the time - I hated those!

It might not have been discussed on here, but most people were on Livejournal in 2007 and I remember that we discussed it pretty heavily over there when it happened. Some people were freaking out that DEG was going to get their CD's pulled off the shelves in Japan etc. (Didn't happen.) But it pretty much just went away as fast as it was a thing. I think the release of Decade wasn't related to this though. It came out only a few months later and would have already been in production at that time.