Chances are those lucky few who HAVE copies of it either didn't realize what they had and have thrown it away over the years, or they're keeping it for as long as possible since it's one heck of a collector's item.
But usually if a CD doesn't sell well, the label just buys them back from the stores after awhile... in the US those are given a notch sawed out of the jewel case, a punched-out hole on the insert, or a gold promo stamp and then re-sold to stores at deep discount prices, and then the stores stick those in the discount/used CD bins. Not sure what happens in japan, but given how high-quality the few copies of this are that I've seen, probably not that. I guess they just take them back and destroy them. *shrug*
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