The Virgin Megastore here in NYC was nicely stocked with the Japanese "...All This Time" when it was released. I ended up ordering it online somewhere, and one of my good friends enlightened me that Virgin had an ample supply on hand. They have a website - http://www.virginmegastore.com. I would check it periodically to see if/when they get the imports in. Steve

From: Richard Ryder <ryder@cesmail.net> To: "R. M. Prior" <priorpsm@hotmail.com>, police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Police] Turning Japanese and Moon 2003 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:09:28 -0400

Hi Rich,

In the New England area there's a chain caled Newbury Comics that almost always gets all the imports. The only exception being the Japanese All This Time, they had the European version with one extra track but they also had the single with the Desert Rose demo and "original" version of Fill Her Up.

I ended up ordering the import version from Tower Records website (Which now has it listing at an insane $37.99 on sale from $42.99, I think I paid around $20-25 for it when it came out) Which was OK, I got it, and I still haven't seen the Japanese version in any store.

Another website in the same vein as ebay except not auctions, and it's just for music related stuff is http://www.gemm.com Many different vendors list there stuff on there, I haven't bought anything on their, but one of my friend has and he's had mixed experiences.

A side note - I was in Maryland last week and I found a great store called CDepot (CDepot/9039 Baltimore Ave./College Park, MD/301.982.3472) with a ton of older Sting singles more than I've seen anywhere, I ended up buying about 5 that I didn't have (Several different versions of TST singles with different live tracks from the soul cages concert video, plus the 2nd regatta mondatta album, the nuclear waste CD, and a this cowboy song single with the pato banton version and the brothers in rhythm remixes of if you love somebody.. all priced from $5-7)

Well, I guess I drifted from the original topic, but it's nice to be excited about the new album.

Rich R.

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Hi, I find myself in the position I am once every 3 or 4 years. I sit tonight trying to gauge how elusive the track Moon Over Bourbon Street 2003 will be. Should I try to get the Japanese version of the new single or wait it out hoping that a more widely available (and cheaper) european or american cd-single will eventially include this track. Past experience has proven that waiting almost always pays off. Except with the most recent release - All This Time. The fragile single was tough to get in the US. Which is too bad, because that alternate version of Fill Her Up is kinda cool. Plus, the Japanese version has three tracks that you could NEVER get in the us. Period. Buy the Japanese release or nothin. Someone posted a site on this mailing list that is in english and brokers japanese releases to Americans and presumably anyone else. I bought 'All This Time' on that site and I know many of you did. Anyone remember the site? Can anyone recommend a good site to quickly purchase a Japanese release? Amazon is too slow (although some of you get kick backs). It would be so much nicer to post these sites than have all of us over bidding for these cd's on ebay, don't you think?

Later, Rich

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