Yep. As everyone's said it's common place that CD has a bonus track in japan. As said below it's because it can be cheaper sometimes for japanese to importy them from overseas, but I was of the understanding that it's not because CDs in japan are 'so expensive' but because the japanese economy is so strong.
But anyway, what *I* want to know is how the japanese record labels so consistently get a hold of these bonus tracks!! The bonus tracks on Meat's albums are normally just a live version of IDAFL etc, and sometimes it's a B-side or some such. But just as often as not, the bonus track is an entirely unreleased studio recording from the same album sessions!! It would be like, I dunno, TMiL being released with 'I Wanna Be With You' or 'Elvis in Vegas; on it! I find it odd the way that the artists always oblige to the "oh, one more song in the tracklist for the japanese market" thing.
> I'm a fan of Ryan Adams, and I'm always on the look-out
> for Japanese releases of his CDs because they always have
> extra bonus tracks. I wanted to ask, is it normal that
> Japanese releases of CDs have extra tracks on them, and if
> so, why do the Japanese get extra stuff we don't?!
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