Glen Burtnick - "Talking In Code"    SPOTTING A BOOTLEG

Information and Photos provided by:  Allan Hirt    www.StyxCollector.com
Notice the difference in spines.  On an original CD, one is in Japanese, and one is in English (the one under the OBI).  The Japanese side is flipped to the way the English is.   Fonts are smaller and slightly different. A&M is also denoted as A&M Records, Inc.
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Compare this to a bootleg....  Even A&M Records is spelled wrong – lowercase “r”.
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Here is what an original Pony-Canyon CD from that era looked like.   It's known that Talking in Code also looks like this.
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Notice the Jasrac below, which is on every Japanese CD.  Also, A&M CDs have the A&M logo.  The fonts used were different, and were also the same as the early US A&M CDs.  All Japanese CDs have the compact disc logo as well.
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Comprare this with the bootleg....  Wrong font, no A&M logo, wrong copyrights, etc.
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Now compare the center of the ring.  See the below pics for two different A&M CDs of that period.   Both clearly have the PROPER catalog number, and really nothing else.  No bar codes, no names, nothing.
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Compare this with the bootleg...
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OBIs from that era fit inside, as shown by this picture:
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They could do this via perforations on the OBI, as shown here:
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Now compare the real OBI to the bootleg – no perfs, it cuts off information on the bottom (missing the catalog number is a sin!) and wrong paper stock:
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