What surprises me the most is: all of them are printed in... The Netherlands! Strange is though that at the time of release I've never heard nor read anything about this. Let be that I saw them being sold. I bought all of my EPIC-pressings either from a German of a British seller.
Not that surprising really, at least nearly all CBS vinyl for the German market was pressed in Holland since 1979.
By the late 80's, CBS and, later, Sony had one vinyl pressing plant in Europe; it was in Holland. I suspect that the Beach Boys rereleases were pressed in such small numbers that bulk of them could have been printed with the Dutch collection society info (BIEM/STEMRA) and then distributed to other, smaller, CBS affiliates (Scandavian, Spain, etc.), as needed. I have not seen German (GEMA) or UK pressings; they may exist, though.
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