Whose Not Digital?
This is just an idle musing upon the fact that some groups, some parts of some groups repertoires, do not seem to be available as digital downloads. Following the passing of Ronnie James Dio, I came to notice that Ozzy-era Black Sabbath isn't available digitally which seems odd. AC/DC doesn't seem available at all digitally, and I just noticed today that the early Kinks era doesn't seem to be available either, that is pre-Muswell Hillbillies Kinks. This was inspired by the recent watching of Pirate Radio which led me to hunt up my Kinks compilations, and the idle thought that maybe the UMG drop might bring some earlier Kinks albums along - my crack card binges have led me to download every Kinks album I could find over yonder I didn't have already - but to my surprise the early albums aren't listed as MP3 available when I went to see what label they're on.
Desperate to ponder anything but more eMu agita I wonder does anyone have any ideas on these situations, or other notable bands/eras still bound to the earthly sphere of vinyl, tape and disc.
Wow, just as an aside I see 7digital has both the rather massive Kinks The RCA Years and The Arista Years going for $9.99 each. Both are a big, I say big, hunk of Kinks, at 101 and 99 tracks.
Desperate to ponder anything but more eMu agita I wonder does anyone have any ideas on these situations, or other notable bands/eras still bound to the earthly sphere of vinyl, tape and disc.
Wow, just as an aside I see 7digital has both the rather massive Kinks The RCA Years and The Arista Years going for $9.99 each. Both are a big, I say big, hunk of Kinks, at 101 and 99 tracks.
Comments
Craig
There are some things which are available on emusic which are hard to find digitally elsewhere:
e.g. 1: Byrds Fifth Dimension snuck onto the site at some point, but it's not digitially available on amazon.
Led Zeppelin was a big holdout - they finally signed up with itunes, guess their expensive habits caugh up with them. Motley Crue as well.
Kid Rock is Rhapsody-only in the USA, last I looked.
What a freaking mess the music industry is.
I'm not anti-commercialization of music, I just hate it when bands pretend that their music is above that and then sell it to the highest bidder anyway.
As for Zeppelin, I think they held out for a while but eventually came around. Remember, Wayne's World came out close to 20 years ago, in 1992. Commercial licensing of popular music was in its relative infancy back then, and it's a different world now. Besides, if Zep was just looking to cash in, don't you think they'd be on their third reunion tour by now?
All hail Wikipedia!
1. AC/DC
2. The Smiths
3. Bob Seger
4. (Some) Black Sabbath
5. Kid Rock
6. Def Leppard
7. Tool
8. Garth Brooks
Don't know if they're digital elsewhere. Quite honestly, don't care. But there you have it. The Final Word courtesy of Yahoo News.
Reporting from his reading chair and surrounded by cats, jonahpwll, emusers news.
I had to quickly take a sip of water just so I could do a spit take after reading that.
[spits]
is the snotty-nosed kid brother.
Yeah, I was surprised when I joined emu to see they had been around longer than itunes.
But still, itunes was the first to offer per track downloads for 99 cents. That's their claim to fame. Even though emu was around long before the itunes store, you had to sign up for a subscription. No "woo hoo I'll download this one song!" with emu.
Oh, we won't let Wayne's World play a few freakin' notes of "Stairway to Heaven" on TV, but here Cadillac, let us shill for your cars every 30 seconds.
I completely agree with the Zeppelin crew. Wayne's World wasn't worthy.