yea the albums was a joke.
from what I've heard they intended to do a pre-order so that people could order them with spares being available in store. the cutoff date was some time in October or november.
it seems that pre-orders ended up being greater than the entire new production run and sotres were not checking what people ordered so that when they showed up and asked for 2 or 4 when they'd only ordered 1 they were getting them meaning that many pre-orders were unfilled because the stores had run out.
Very poorly managed on Woolworths behalf, I doubt they had any idea this would be so popular.