Releases
"Wishful Thinking" was not officially released on CD in the UK until 1994, when ZTT were reissuing their 80's back-catalogue to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a label. However, the CD originally made a brief, unpromoted appearance at UK retail in limited quantities in the summer of 1988. Distributed by Island Records, they were marked "For Export Only" and carried the catalogue number ZCIDQ20. Island were responsible for manufacturing and distributing ZTT's output between 1983–88, before ZTT moved to WEA. It is most likely that this version of the CD was originally intended for release in the wake of the vinyl and cassette versions in 1985, but was pulled due to the poor initial sales of the album in those other formats (only reaching no. 82 in the UK album chart). This low-key release could therefore simply have been a result of Island Records purging their stock of ZTT releases once their relationship with the label was at an end. As a result, the ZCIDQ20 version is a true rarity and highly collectable.
The CD was reissued on the German Repertoire label in 2000 (catalogue number REP 4901), and contained an expanded 6 page booklet featuring an essay by Jerry Ewing on the history of the band.
A remastered CD of Wishful Thinking was released on 4 June 2012, as part of ZTT/Salvo's Element series. It contains six bonus tracks, five of which appear to be "previously unreleased".
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