I bought the initial BYG batch Nos. 1-4 (Art >Ensemble, Cherry, Sun Ra, Shepp) on British >Charly, only to see them all come out not much >later at midprice on Fuel 2000.

I paid the same or maybe even less for the Charly imports than the price of the domestic Fuel editions. Ordered them from Subterranean (http://www.subterranean.org) and it looks like many of the first batch are still available.