Deleted Music
Posted on September 28th, 2006 by Tim Almond
Historically, record companies have had to "delete" recordings from their catalogue. That’s not to say that they don’t have the master recordings, just that they don’t currently press or keep stock of a particular recording.
In the days of records or CDs where physical manufacture was required, this made sense. To do a run for the tiny group of people who want Detestimony by Finitribe doesn’t make economic sense.
But it seems to me that putting out a digital recording has much lower barriers. Adding a track for a download requires what? Transcoding the data to whatever download format is required and adding the artwork.
So, why aren’t we seeing more of it? There’s a whole load of old 80s stuff that isn’t on CD that I’ll pay up for.
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I agree too, as long as we will stick with CDs for a while. I have yet to buy and iPod, my sons both have one and it seems such an extravagance to have 3 in the house. Besides, I love my radio.
This is more about stuff that never even made it to CD, but I can see a market for collecting these tracks and flogging them off.
I don’t buy much digitally, but I have an emusic subscription and have been stocking up on various tracks of my youth. There’s not a huge selection as it’s mostly independent music, but it’s only 25c (about 15p) a track.