On Order from Amazon!

There was a troop of Asda bods taking all the CDs off the shelves - no-one obviously told them about 09/09/09.

Odd though that Asdas chart identifies a number of the albums in their Top 40 before they go on sale.
Clairvoyance or just arbitary chart making?

I think Fopp had them out yesterday when I was in seeing the Willard Grant Conspiracy. They'd disappeared today, so as per Asda maybe...

The release-date-embargo arrangement that retailers have with suppliers is always a serious thing. Beatlemania being the phenomenon it is, this time round it's a full-on jobs-on-the-line big heavy deal. You'd think.

I heard a couple of rumours that some supermarkets were selling them early. If true, then I hope EMI are as good as their word and follow through on their threat to discontinue early deliveryor new release product. Either that or force them to pay a fat fine or something.

NB: I've a vested interest here, I admit. I work for A.N.Other retailer. (Clue: it's the one with the dog and the gramophone.) Sorry if I sound po-faced about this, but we're all really excited about Fabs Day and we've just worked really hard re-dressing the shop for tomorrow morning. They're released on 09/09/09, NOT any earlier. It's called Playing Fair.

(Hopefully mine in mono arrive from Amazon tomorrow)

The ones I ordered (I cherry-picked a few rather than buying a boxset) were apparently sent from Amazon yesterday. Not sure to what extent that counts because given postal strikes, etc., it may well be some time after the 09/09/09 before I receive them.

ofthe entire bundle. Working through them slowly. First impressions are that the White Album and Abbey Road sound superb- especially the harmonies. Much more punch on the bass too.

...despatched by Amazon today. £135 well spent, methinks.

record shop today and the guy behind the counter was putting barcodes on the batch they had! I was so close to them, I asked him how much they were but he didn't know what the price would be! I'm in Ireland so they'll probably be about 40 euro each!

I played an MP3 copy of the remastered stereo Rubber Soul and was surprised that too a large extent they still had the voices in one ear and the instruments in the other. I suppose that's why people are buying them in mono.

in Weybridge...had all of them (apart from Let It Be, oddly) available this morning, and all at random positions on the shelf. no box sets though.

Amazon have despatched my mono box-set and I got quite excited, then the 10 o'clock news then carried an item about the impending industrial dispute, and to say the good lady wife fell about with (what I thought was rather cruel..) laughter would be an understatement!

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a bit late there.

Thanks to all for your responses. Off to admire the remasters in HMV now...

just arrived at work. It looks rather lovely and it's going to be a fun evening tonight. Thanks Amazon!

had them out on Monday morning. Still there yesterday. I'm not buying anything again, but filled in a couple of holes in the collection (MMT, BFS) and picked up Beatles Rock Band 'for the kids'.

but hoping my mono box will be there when I get home. Listened to them a lot in my youth when my bro had the vinyl & do wonder if my lack of interest is from the poor quality of the cd,s I have bought.

...the impact of The Beatles remasters to be to be on par with the arrival of a new Harry Potter novel - with retailers overstocked, competing on price and aggressively chasing pre-orders. Had these albums seen the light of day a few years ago, maybe that would have been the case.

The reality is more guarded: My local Sainsbury's grudgingly sells CDs, without much care or enthusiasm. This afternoon they had Revolver, Sergeant Pepper, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and Help! displayed with no great fanfare in the new releases section. The Beatles game was also on sale, but again there was no promotional push for it.

HMV had a small, bespoke cardboard display just left of the entrance to the store, positioned so that you couldn't see it as you walked in, and would only see it on your way out if you took an unusual line towards the exit. They had a few Beatles CDs in the racks and were playing the remasters over the PA. I don't understand why they didn’t have the discs on display in a more prominent position.

From what I’ve seen, retailers are erring on the side of caution with these albums. Nobody knows how well they are going to sell. I assume that they will chart, but will any of them still be in the top 40 a month from now?

Whether this trepidation is a symptom of the current recession, or is yet another portent signalling the demise of the high street record shop is anyone’s guess. I found it a bit depressing but have since cheered myself up by listening to my sparkling new copy of Magical Mystery Tour. While I find much to admire in the music of The Beatles, it's the only album in their canon that I love.