Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time Super Deluxe Boxset

[Bellenger1981]

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Sorry. There's the link to the Universal Music Direct website.

[Bellenger1981]

Does anyone care to comment on the shoddy sound quality on a handful of tracks on disc three of this super deluxe edition box set of "Once Upon A Time"? "All The Things She Said [Edit]" and "All The Things She Said [Extended Version]" sound like low quality MP3 files to me. Apparently, it's tracks 5-8 on this box set, but "Promised You A Miracle [US Remix]" sounds fine to my ears -- perhaps it's just the production? "Don't You (Forget About Me) [Live From Rotterdam]" sounds like poor quality, too, worse quality than the first two live Rotterdam tracks on the disc. Both "All The Things She Said" versions have obvious distortion. Universal needs to replace these tracks with fixed sound, but I don't see that happening unless more people take note and complain. It's amazing to me how many mistakes keep getting made with these box sets.

[negative1]

There are replacement discs for the one with the faulty tracks.

Contact the label for information about it.

Later
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[Bellenger1981]

There are replacement discs for the one with the faulty tracks.

Contact the label for information about it.

Later
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I did ... and after some back and forth conversation with the contact at Universal, this is the response I received:

"Hello Jason,

Thank you for your email

We have previously instructed all retailers to return any stock that is faulty to Universal, and we have been sending out reworked corrected stock. It depends when the retailer placed their stock order with us and if they have returned/replaced any stock with us, but the rework was completed in July last year, so any stock since then should be fine

If you are looking whether the retailer has the correct stock I am unable to direct to any specific retailer, but only suggest that every retailer has had the opportunity to return and replace stock since July. If a purchase is made and a faulty product is still out in the market please return to their retailer and it will be replaced accordingly."

I am being told to contact the retailer for a replacement. Is the contact at Universal mistakenly confusing the "Once Upon A Time" set for the "Sparkle In The Rain" set? A July date makes absolutely no sense to me, considering that it wasn't released until December.