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Apparently Party In The Blitz has been released as a promo. Is this the 5th single?

https://www.discogs.com/release/3190148 ... The-Blitz-

Very funny.
There are not promos of the regular singles and there is a promo of a B-side.

IMO it's a bootleg.

There are many of these bootlegs on Ebay, this one for example:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126683274262

that are very well done, really.
But NOT official at all.

I came across a lot of them lately. Very well made bootlegs. It's a complete new market for those people who want to "own" the music, instead of having only digital.

I don't see this entry remaining for too long as it violates Discogs submission guideline 1.1.1.

I remember seeing a load of Russian fake promo singles from the Electric era going for a fortune

Yes, it's one of these bootlegs. Very well made, but expensive
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126644122888

This is something I try to report when I see such a trash. Lots of action from Austria and Ukraine on ebay. Cannot understand why these [inappropriate word removed by forum admin] are still active users.

drunk14 wrote: Sat 05 Oct 2024, 9:58 pm This is something I try to report when I see such a trash. Lots of action from Austria and Ukraine on ebay. Cannot understand why these [inappropriate word removed by forum admin] are still active users.

Really? You have to use that word as a form of abuse in this day and age?

Not trying to be 'woke' (hate that word) but really? Read your audience.

drunk14 wrote: Sat 05 Oct 2024, 9:58 pm Cannot understand why these [inappropriate word removed by forum admin] are still active users.

Watch out for [inappropriate word removed by forum admin] with brick bags...

I reported these "bootleg sellers" several times on Ebay, without any consequence.

On Discogs it's not possible, as far as I know, to sell unofficial items.

drunk14 wrote: Sat 05 Oct 2024, 9:58 pm This is something I try to report when I see such a trash. Lots of action from Austria and Ukraine on ebay. Cannot understand why these [inappropriate word removed by forum admin] are still active users.

You should be banned for using that awful word

andmaste wrote: Sat 05 Oct 2024, 5:57 pm Very funny.
There are not promos of the regular singles and there is a promo of a B-side.

IMO it's a bootleg.

There are many of these bootlegs on Ebay, this one for example:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126683274262

that are very well done, really.
But NOT official at all.

That Burning The Heather one is really nice.... Too nice.

Some of these look marvellous. All the more reason why they should re-release all the singles physically on CD, and include all tracks across all formats. Of particular interest are for tracks that didn't originally appear on CD format:

Opportunities (1985)
West End girls
Love comes quickly
Opportunities (1986)
Suburbia
Yesterday, when I was mad (Euroboy)
Home and dry (Nightlife)
I get along (Friendly fire)
Integral (quasi-single)
Love etc. (We're all criminals now)
Did you see me coming? (Brits medley)
Winner remixes
Leaving (one of the remixes)
Axis (quasi-single)
Fluorescent (quasi-single)
Inner sanctum (quasi-single)
Burning the heather

Yep, the covers definately look really good. I wish they were bonafide releases. And, as said above, it shows how appealing a proper CD-re-release of the singles would be.
But would all releases fit on one disc? I doubt it.

They're good "bootlegs". There's a demand for them. If Parlaphone/PSB themselves actually made these officially available we would buy them, but they don't, so these well made bootlegs fill that hole. I guarantee, GUARANTEE that when the archive project is released digitally (each single, every remix etc) on Spotify, that if an actual tactile physical copy isn't released to co-incide with it then these bootleggers will again fill that gap.