Oops I accidentally stepped on a gratuitous post! I shall will it back to you.
This is a new thing, the withholding the CD for endless months so they can get all the streaming people to buy it. I find it reprehensible and actually incredibly ignorant, as they miss all those lobby sales. It used to be the other way - CD as fast as possible, and then streaming at the same time. No one knows what they're doing anymore.