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Here is the Dr. Rhino reply (not to me, but another inquirer"

Here's my reply from Dr. Rhino 2:15 PM

Dear Ron,

These titles are tentatively scheduled for a June 07 release, and will be limited-edition & sold via the internet. Please stay tuned to www.rhino.com for any further developments.

Dr. Rhino

So, we wait until June, and order online. But this does not bode well for any additional deluxe edition releases, does it?
Bob T

You're making a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mistake; releasing the first 2 CDs to stores and keeping the others from fans by making them available online.

(Anyone out there who [unlike me] can order online wanna hook me up with these CDs? )

Actually, we're fortunate Rhino is willing to release these on CD at all.

Elsewhere, there's a big controversy about Herb Alpert re-issuing the remaining Tijuana Brass albums on iTunes only. The first dozen or so were released to stores on CD. Now that they're getting to the less popular albums, they've decided not to put them on CD in any way, shape or form. The only way to get them is as compressed, DRM-encoded downloads from iTunes. A lot of people aren't happy about that. I'd be delighted to have a limited edition, internet-only purchase of a CD of these albums instead.

So for Rhino to release these at all on CD is a good thing. You can always find a friend or neighbor to get them for you, if you're unable to buy them online for whatever reason. But at least they're going to be available as honest-to-goodness CDs. Not down-sampled, downloaded digital files.

The glass here, is definitely half-full.

Online only? It'd be better than nothing!