For collectors: new 4 cd box-set released in Italy

Just a quick note for the records collectors. We have a new 4 cd box-set here in Italy called:

Queen & Freddie Mercury - The Definitive Collection

It's an original limited edition not available in record shops but only as a gadget with a music magazine. It has been released in 4 weeks with one cd for each week and it's now difficult to find.

Who needs it for his collection could send me a swap list (only rarities obviously) or can buy it from here:

http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300092821821

Regards,

Giancarlo

Hi Giancarlo,

Thank you for posting! Does this item have a catalogue number? If it does, could yoy please post it here?

I read on an Italian forum that on the discs and inlays there is an additional logo of Sorrisi e Canzoni. I do not know if you could post scans of those?

Thanks in advance.

Ciao!

Looks very nice. The special box and the song book.. wish I had the money to spare :)

I left a message in the NEWS section a few days ago.

Personally I didn't bought those articles: simply I don't need them.

bye
Claudio

There isn't any catalogue number in the visible part of the box but there's maybe on the back of it. I don't want to open it from the carton stand because it will loose much of its value if I open it. About the logo: yes it's present.

Regards,

Giancarlo

Giancarlo: thank you. I fully understand that you don't want to open the box!

I see that on the red carton there is a barcode. Could you please give me the numbers that are on there? Most of the time the labelnumber and the barcode are identical.

Of course! The barcode says:

"9 770038 156437" on the down side and "7001>" on the upper side.

All the best,

Giancarlo

Thanks!

Definately NOT an original release. What a cheesy item. Makes me wanna puke.

Quick question: What's the magazine called?

V.

Sorrisi e canzoni.

An article (in Italian) about this can be found on their website: http://www.sorrisi.com/sorrisi/personaggi/art023001035991.jsp

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]radio_what's_new wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Definately NOT an original release. What a cheesy item. Makes me wanna puke.[/QUOTE]


It IS an original release, not a bootleg. If you don't understand the difference it's one of your problems.

Doesn't look official...

just another Italian counterfeit release if you ask me.

It's 10 years since we don't have any counterfeit edition in Italy, mainly because of the strict laws about the author's rights.

The things have gone differently in Germany (where a lot of pirate picture discs and black vinyl records have surfaced in the very last years) and in UK (where the pirate cds market is yet alive).

I don't know what do you know about Italy and what do you think about, but considering your last sentences I suggest you to point your opinions from pizza to spaghetti only, and avoiding to talk about record-collecting because you don't know that world.

And since who is talking is one of the most influent Queen collectors you can take my words like pure gold, darling.

pfffft....
boring!

Just gave my opinion about the box set. Nothing more nothing less...

looks like another Italian counterfeit if you ask me...!