Janet CD with normal cover yet???

[Carlitoz]

Has anybody seen a regular CD of Janet's last album, but with the original cover??
I refuse to buy the CDs with the fan-made covers. I refuse to buy also the special edition.
If there won't be one in the U.S.A., how about Europe? Does anybody know what cover they released there?

I DON'T MEAN TO START A WHOLE NEW THREAD ON JANET. THIS IS ONLY A QUICK SEPARATE QUESTION. I'M NOT PLANNING TO START A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE COVERS, ALBUM SALES, ETC, ETC. JUST YES OR NO AND IF YES, WHERE. Thanks!

[damnnnitzzjohn]

I don't think there is one. And if there is, then it would already be out.

[Carlitoz]

Man! :(

And with the level of sales, I doubt the record company will produce more until all stores run out of their current copies. There has to be a country somewhere that just released the regular CD!! I'll keep looking. :)

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

I saw it at Target the week the album dropped. They had the original, the 4 fan covers, and the limited edition. Not sure it's still available, though.

[CookyMonzta]

carlitoz said:

Has anybody seen a regular CD of Janet's last album, but with the original cover?? 
I refuse to buy the CDs with the fan-made covers.  I refuse to buy also the special edition. 
If there won't be one in the U.S.A., how about Europe?  Does anybody know what cover they released there?

I DON'T MEAN TO START A WHOLE NEW THREAD ON JANET.  THIS IS ONLY A QUICK SEPARATE QUESTION.  I'M NOT PLANNING TO START A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE COVERS, ALBUM SALES, ETC, ETC.  JUST YES OR NO AND IF YES, WHERE.  Thanks!

The regular cover? Only in vinyl.

[damnnnitzzjohn]

My bad, of course there is one! And I saw it at my local Best Buy 1 wk ago

[Carlitoz]

Thanks, I'll check it out again. I've been already to several stores (Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, etc, etc) and nothing.

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

yeah, it might be sold out by now b/c nobody wants those shitty fan made covers lol

[grimface]

a million fan covers were shipped. to date she has sold only half of that. so the original might end up in the rerelease.

[Carlitoz]

I bought my CD (with the original cover!!!) finally two weeks ago. I bought it in Cancun while vacationing in Mexico. That's all they had over there and not even one fan-made cover!! Cool!! :)
I still haven't seen any original cover on regular-cd edition here in the U.S. By the way, now that I've listened more to the album, I am enjoying it more. It's not a work of art or very unique or original, but I'm enjoying it. :)

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Janet isn't going to sell enough to even get to the normal cover so lets not hold our breath on a cover.

[MikeCheck12]

adonis said:

Janet isn't going to sell enough to even get to the normal cover so lets not hold our breath on a cover.

Yea - they made WAY too many copies of the fan made covers. 200-300K would have been plenty, in my opinion.

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

the fan-made covers can't be helping sales. it's a nice gesture, but when you see them in person they look like cheap bootlegs.

[Carlitoz]

I agree. I don't think the fan-made cover really helped sales of the album. I for example bought my copy 2 months after the release because I hated the fan-made covers and didn't want to buy the special edition.

I think 95% of the CDs should've had the original cover and issue the rest with the alternative covers just a collectors' item for hard-core fans.

I consider myself a big Janet fan and have all her CDs and try to get as many b-sides and non-album tracks as I can for my collection, but I didn't feel the need of buying those fan-made covers. If I was going to get my one copy of 20 Y.O. it had to be the one with the pretty original cover. No way I was going to spend money on the fan-made ones.

For completist collectors and very hard-core fans, cool. Not for me.