Back Panic Print Several Popular Pink Floyd Albums . . . Including “The Wall” . . . Are No Longer Available Digitally
Back Panic Print Several Popular Pink Floyd Albums . . . Including “The Wall” . . . Are No Longer Available Digitally
Several popular PINK FLOYD albums . . . including “The Wall”, “Animals”, “The Final Cut” and “Wish You Were Here” . . . are NOT currently available digitally.
–Those albums . . . and other post-“Dark Side of the Moon” releases . . . have been pulled from places like iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store, over a contract issue.
–Basically, it boils down to this: EMI’s contract to distribute that portion of the Pink Floyd catalog expired on June 30th. (–Their earlier releases . . . from “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” through “Dark Side of the Moon” . . . are still available.)
–For now, the pulled titles are still available on CD, but that’s only because EMI has some existing backstock to blow through. According to reports, they will not be able to press new CD copies of those albums until a new contract is in place.
–The likelihood of that happening is unclear. Pink Floyd’s management has been shopping the entire catalog to major labels for over a year. Right now, it sounds like their asking price is pretty ridiculous.
–Negotiations are still ongoing. (–You’d think Pink Floyd would work out something soon with EMI . . . or another label . . . because ROGER WATERS’ new “Wall” tour kicks off on September 15th.)
(–It would benefit everyone involved to have “The Wall . . . and other Floyd albums . . . available during that tour. Especially with all the press that will come when DAVID GILMOUR makes his appearance on the tour.)
Tags: catalog, contract, david gilmour, EMI, gates of dawn, Moon, pink floyd albums, piper at the gates, piper at the gates of dawn, Wall
