That the reissues are seeing the light of day at all is noteworthy:

revealed to Billboard earlier this year that in the late '80s, he and his bandmates threw what they thought were the master tapes for all of their albums into the Mississippi River after an ownership dispute.
"Hell, we probably threw half The Suburbs' [labelmates] records in there," he said. "It was a frantic moment:

and I grabbed as many as we physically could, which was, between the two of us, about five.

occupied the receptionist. And [guitarist]

was in the car with the motor running. We were doing the only thing we thought we could do: which was to go and grab what we thought was ours and destroy it."
Twin/Tone co-founder Paul Stark said what

actually tossed in the river were not the band's masters, but rather safety copies -- and a reel that contained some studio horseplay and tracks featuring

(a copy of that tape survived). Some rough mixes and the multi-track of the song "

" may also have been lost.