`original_date` ignored on import

### Problem

Have an example album where even though I have `original_date: yes` in my config, on import the wrong `year` gets stored. Specifically it is the following Michal Jackson album that's being imported with a `year=1988`, the year of the specific pressing, as opposed to the expected `year=1979` of the original release given on the MusicBrainz page:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/7fa492d6-3b75-4f75-9cd8-b87e4def2417

Below the output of running `beet -vv import ...` on this album:

<details><summary>Verbose output of `beet import`</summary>

```
user configuration: /Users/torext/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /Users/torext/.config/beets
plugin paths: []
Loading plugins: alternatives, convert, edit, fetchart, info, mbsync, musicbrainz
fetchart: google: Disabling art source due to missing key
fetchart: lastfm: Disabling art source due to missing key
fetchart: To use Spotify as an album art source, you must install the beautifulsoup4 module. See the documentation for further details.
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /Users/torext/.config/beets/library.db
library directory: /Users/torext/Desktop/beets_test/FLAC
Sending event: library_opened
Sending event: import_begin
state file could not be read: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/Users/torext/.config/beets/state.pickle'
Sending event: import_task_created
Sending event: import_task_start
Looking up: /Users/torext/Music/FLAC/Michael Jackson/Off the Wall [25·8P-5138]
Tagging Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Searching for discovered album ID: 7fa492d6-3b75-4f75-9cd8-b87e4def2417
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release 7fa492d6-3b75-4f75-9cd8-b87e4def2417
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (7fa492d6-3b75-4f75-9cd8-b87e4def2417) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.00
Sending event: album_matched
Album ID match recommendation is 3
Search terms: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Album might be VA: False
musicbrainz: Searching for '' with {'release': 'off the wall', 'artist': 'michael jackson'}
Searching for MusicBrainz releases with: 'release:(off the wall) artist:(michael jackson)'
musicbrainz: Found 5 result(s)
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release bf8fca85-6709-4a78-86f0-9789e617c5c8
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release 6258e39d-bef4-4d5a-a654-440cf4c4c29a
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release 72d8b60b-154f-4925-88f8-7c8be0589b90
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release 74c9841c-bc3d-42d3-b594-d5cba24ee7d4
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
musicbrainz: Requesting MusicBrainz release ead57fd6-b1f5-4087-aa4c-5f0a0cce1964
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_track_extract
Sending event: mb_album_extract
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (bf8fca85-6709-4a78-86f0-9789e617c5c8) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.22
Sending event: album_matched
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (6258e39d-bef4-4d5a-a654-440cf4c4c29a) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.24
Sending event: album_matched
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (72d8b60b-154f-4925-88f8-7c8be0589b90) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.31
Sending event: album_matched
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (74c9841c-bc3d-42d3-b594-d5cba24ee7d4) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.17
Sending event: album_matched
Sending event: albuminfo_received
Candidate: Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (ead57fd6-b1f5-4087-aa4c-5f0a0cce1964) from MusicBrainz
Computing track assignment...
...done.
Success. Distance: 0.17
Sending event: album_matched
Evaluating 6 candidates.
Sending event: import_task_before_choice
Sending event: before_choose_candidate
Sending event: import_task_choice
Sending event: import_task_apply
0 of 10 items replaced
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
fetchart: trying source filesystem[default] for album Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
fetchart: using well-named art file cover.jpg
fetchart: using local image b'/Users/torext/Music/FLAC/Michael Jackson/Off the Wall [25\xc2\xb78P-5138]/cover.jpg'
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Parsed query: AndQuery([NoneQuery('album_id', True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([BooleanQuery('comp', 1, fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: item_copied
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: write
Sending event: after_write
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: import_task_files
Sending event: art_set
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: database_change
state file could not be read: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/Users/torext/.config/beets/state.pickle'
Sending event: album_imported
Sending event: import
Sending event: cli_exit
```
</details>


### Setup

* OS: macos 14.5
* Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no
* Output of `beet --version`:
```
beets version 2.10.0
Python version 3.13.7
plugins: alternatives, convert, edit, fetchart, info, mbsync, musicbrainz
```



My configuration (output of `beet config -d`) is:

<details><summary>config.yaml</summary>

```yaml
directory: ~/Desktop/beets_test/FLAC

# --------------- Plugins ---------------

plugins: musicbrainz fetchart convert mbsync info edit alternatives

import:
    incremental_skip_later: yes
    from_scratch: yes
    write: yes
    copy: yes
    move: no
    timid: no
    quiet: no
    log:
    default_action: apply
    languages: []
    quiet_fallback: skip
    none_rec_action: ask
    link: no
    hardlink: no
    reflink: no
    delete: no
    resume: ask
    incremental: no
    autotag: yes
    singletons: no
    detail: no
    flat: no
    group_albums: no
    pretend: no
    search_ids: []
    duplicate_keys:
        album: albumartist album
        item: artist title
    duplicate_action: ask
    duplicate_verbose_prompt: no
    bell: no
    set_fields: {}
    ignored_alias_types: []
    singleton_album_disambig: yes
    fix_ext_inplace: no
    remux_mp3_in_wav: yes

match:
    ignore_video_tracks: no
    strong_rec_thresh: 0.04
    medium_rec_thresh: 0.25
    rec_gap_thresh: 0.25
    max_rec:
        missing_tracks: medium
        unmatched_tracks: medium
    distance_weights:
        data_source: 2.0
        artist: 3.0
        album: 3.0
        media: 1.0
        mediums: 1.0
        year: 1.0
        country: 0.5
        label: 0.5
        catalognum: 0.5
        albumdisambig: 0.5
        album_id: 5.0
        tracks: 2.0
        missing_tracks: 0.9
        unmatched_tracks: 0.6
        track_title: 3.0
        track_artist: 2.0
        track_index: 1.0
        track_length: 2.0
        track_id: 5.0
        medium: 1.0
    preferred:
        countries: []
        media: []
        original_year: no
    ignored: []
    required: []
    ignored_media: []
    ignore_data_tracks: yes
    track_length_grace: 10
    track_length_max: 30
    album_disambig_fields: data_source media year country label catalognum albumdisambig
    singleton_disambig_fields: data_source index track_alt album
original_date: yes
convert:
    never_convert_lossy_files: yes
    dest:
    pretend: no
    link: no
    hardlink: no
    threads: 11
    format: mp3
    id3v23: inherit
    write_metadata: yes
    formats:
        aac:
            command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec aac -aq 1 $dest
            extension: m4a
        alac:
            command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec alac $dest
            extension: m4a
        flac: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec flac $dest
        mp3: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -aq 2 $dest
        opus: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libopus -ab 96k $dest
        ogg: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libvorbis -aq 3 $dest
        wma: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec wmav2 -vn $dest
    max_bitrate:
    auto: no
    auto_keep: no
    tmpdir:
    quiet: no
    embed: yes
    paths: {}
    no_convert: ''
    copy_album_art: no
    album_art_maxwidth: 0
    delete_originals: no
    playlist:
alternatives:
    mp3:
        directory: ~/Desktop/beets_test/MP3
        formats: mp3

aunique:
    keys: albumartist album
    disambiguators: albumtype original_year label catalognum albumdisambig releasegroupdisambig
    bracket: '[]'
# --------------- Main ---------------

library: library.db
statefile: state.pickle

pluginpath: []

raise_on_error: no

# --------------- Import ---------------

clutter: [Thumbs.DB, .DS_Store]
ignore:
- .*
- '*~'
- System Volume Information
- lost+found
ignore_hidden: yes

# --------------- Paths ---------------

path_sep_replace: _
drive_sep_replace: _
asciify_paths: no
art_filename: cover
max_filename_length: 0
replace:
    '[<>:\?\*\|]': _
    \": _
    '[\\/]': _
    ^\.: _
    \.$: _
    '[\x00-\x1f]': _
    ^-: _
    \s+$: ''
    ^\s+: ''

sunique:
    keys: artist title
    disambiguators: year trackdisambig
    bracket: '[]'

# --------------- Tagging ---------------

per_disc_numbering: no
artist_credit: no
id3v23: no
va_name: Various Artists
paths:
    default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    singleton: Non-Album/$artist/$title
    comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track $title

# --------------- Performance ---------------

threaded: yes
timeout: 5.0

# --------------- UI ---------------

verbose: 0
terminal_encoding:

ui:
    terminal_width: 80
    length_diff_thresh: 10.0
    color: yes
    colors:
        text_success: [bold, green]
        text_warning: [bold, yellow]
        text_error: [bold, red]
        text_highlight: [bold, red]
        text_highlight_minor: [white]
        action_default: [bold, cyan]
        action: [bold, cyan]
        text_faint: [faint]
        import_path: [bold, blue]
        import_path_items: [bold, blue]
        changed: [yellow]
        text_diff_added: [bold, green]
        text_diff_removed: [bold, red]
        action_description: [white]

    import:
        indentation:
            match_header: 2
            match_details: 2
            match_tracklist: 5
        layout: column

# --------------- Search ---------------

format_item: $artist - $album - $title
format_album: $albumartist - $album
time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
format_raw_length: no

sort_album: albumartist+ album+
sort_item: artist+ album+ disc+ track+
sort_case_insensitive: yes

# --------------- Autotagger ---------------

overwrite_null:
    album: []
    track: []
disabled_plugins: []
musicbrainz:
    search_limit: 5
    data_source_mismatch_penalty: 0.5
    search_query_ascii: no
    genres: no
    genres_tag: genre
    external_ids:
        discogs: no
        bandcamp: no
        spotify: no
        deezer: no
        tidal: no
    extra_tags: []
fetchart:
    auto: yes
    minwidth: 0
    maxwidth: 0
    quality: 0
    max_filesize: 0
    enforce_ratio: no
    cautious: no
    cover_names:
    - cover
    - front
    - art
    - album
    - folder
    fallback:
    sources:
    - filesystem
    - coverart
    - itunes
    - amazon
    - albumart
    - cover_art_url
    store_source: no
    high_resolution: no
    deinterlace: no
    cover_format:
    google_key: REDACTED
    google_engine: REDACTED
    lastfm_key: REDACTED
    fanarttv_key: REDACTED
edit:
    albumfields: album albumartist
    itemfields: track title artist album
    ignore_fields: id path
```
</details>

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