Cd's Out Of Print

Greetings members of Progarchives! I am very "old school " in the sense that I am not thrilled over downloading. I buy cd's instead and since I collect mostly obscure titles I am often faced with the dilemma of something going out of print. There are situations where a particular cd will never be re-released. For many years I've tried to find Michael Giles- Progress and the first two Julverne cd's at a fair price however I am dreaming and it's ridiculous of me to think I could find them without paying an extremely high price or trading something rare . Has anyone on Progarchives struggled with this? Would you be so kind as to make a list of recordings that you've been searching for ? It would be interesting to know what obscure Prog titles are out of print.

Edited by Jacob Schoolcraft - December 27 2021 at 08:51

Completely agree with you Jacob.

I'm also "old school" in that I like to own the physical album (CD format) and some are devilishly difficult or impossible to get hold of.

I tried to get hold if Anglagards Hybris for years, but you can't get it unless you want to pay silly money.

James Baldwin did an interesting article on Museo Rosenbach's Zarathustra the other day, but try getting hold of this album on CD and its impossible!

Hi,

Wow...that's interesting. Thanks everyone for responding! It must be the license process that makes life difficult idk? I'm guessing to license a certain Prog release is expensive and it might be a situation where once it's released it sells out quickly yet the label that licensed the recording is not making enough profit to release it a second time and so therefore it gets deleted and the price then gets ridiculously high whether it's a sealed copy or a used copy. I could be wrong. I'm thinking it must be difficult to be in the business handling that.

Edited by Jacob Schoolcraft - December 27 2021 at 11:00

L'estate Di San Martino- Talsete Di Marsantino is difficult to on CD by someone who will send it to USA.

Tony Williams Lifetime- The Old Bum's Rush, Thinking Plague- Early Plague Years, White Noise- White Noise 2- Concerto For Synthesizer, and Soft Heap! These I must listen to.

More CDs go OOP than most people realize. As another physical media proponent, I'm aware of that painful reality.

Mirakaze wrote: Tenko's Energeia, Beledo's El Céfiro and Museo Heterodoxo's De Los Brujos, Magos Y Alquimistas are seemingly non-existent in any form on the internet, and physical copies are either unavailable or else prohibitively expensive. me sad After glancing at my Discogs wantlist, some more out-of-print stuff that's hard to acquire at a reasonable price on CD that I can think of includes: * The Tony Williams Lifetime - The Old Bum's Rush * Tipographica - Tipographica * Thinking Plague - Early Plague Years * White Noise - White Noise 2: Concerto For Synthesizer as well as most Cardiacs albums and pretty much anything by Soft Heap

Tipographica s/t is one I have also had on my list since forever. I'm very thankful to have got their others when it was possible to find them without sacrificing a kidney.

Still keeping an eye out for Ruth White cds and most Electronic artists in the U.S. during the 60s. Mort Garson's 2 occult albums were released on cd and I picked those up quickly. Now they appear to be going out of print. Beaver And Krause Ragnarok has never been released on cd. Paul Beaver was a great pioneer of the synthesizer and an innovator . Ragnarok I want just for 3 Electronic pieces. I'm not particularly fond of the album. One Beaver & Krause album on Limelight and several bizarre Ruth White releases on Limelight. Wendy Carlos I have about 6 cds and most of her back catalog is out of print. I would seriously like to have the early Stomu Yamashta on cd. When he was more of an Avant-garde artist collaborating with others and prior to going to England , working with Hugh Hopper, Gary Boyle, etc and releasing about 5 solo albums that were Prog...sometimes sounding Canterbury with an Asian "feel" and Esoteric released those. Then he disappeared into a monastery for about a year and surfaced again with ceremonial music such as the Iroha-Ka series which was some of the darkest Electronic music and practically demonic. . Then he did the soundtrack to Tempest which was beautiful. All of the aforementioned have never been released on cd...ugh! He lives in a temple writing ceremonial music . I really hope to see this stuff released one day...but I sincerely doubt it ever will be.