Rhino Handmade's Guadalcanal Diary reissues were already in the works when 
WEA licensed the first two albums to Collectibles, a situation over which no one 
at Handmade had any control.  It's also worth noting that Collectibles' 
version was assembled with no input from the band members, who are closely involved 
with the Handmade discs, providing unreleased tracks, interviews and archival 
memorabilia.  

The Collectibles disc sounds decent to my ears, although I seriously doubt 
that they used the original tapes.  But the twofer's hideous cover art and 
clueless liner notes are in keeping with Collectibles' longstanding tradition of 
shoddy packaging and careless annotation.