HOLY SHIT I ACTUALLY FOUND IT!!!!!!
As far as Mad releases go, this seems to be a bizarre holy grail, because of the awful distribution it was put through, but here it is, after a long, long time of searching. This version of Digidogheadlock, sporting a purple cover, was released by What's Up? Music, a label created by Mad's lyric translator and manager at the time, George Cockle. Park was also released through this label, but both of these US editions are exceptionally rare due to poor distribution and public disinterest at the time. I found this copy of this ungodly rare edition on Buyee of all places at a whopping 500 yen. It's not in the best condition, but regardless, what an utter miracle!
Is there any reason to get this, beyond going for a complete collection? If you have the European yellow-cover edition from JVC (undoubtedly the most definitive edition of this album commercially available), or you have the original Japanese edition and the "Crash Pow" single, then no, absolutely not. If you don't have the album and you come across it by some chance for cheap, you might as well go for it. It only has one of the single bonus tracks, the rather meh remix of "Crash Pow", whereas the European edition has three of them. This is something that only hardcore collectors are going to see any real value in, since having all three colored covers together would look cool as hell.
The liner notes in this edition are incredibly barebones, plainly printed on the back of the front cover, but it makes them easier to read than the small print against a bright red background in the Japanese edition. Not that that really means all that much, though. Now I just need to find that yellow-cover edition, which is just slightly easier to find, and the trifecta will be complete.
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