History KeepCirculatingTheTapes / Music

* Most {{Shoegazing}} bands suffered this after the end of the fad. With the exception of MyBloodyValentine, CatherineWheel, {{Ride}} and {{Slowdive}}, many of the bands' albums went out of print. This wouldn't be so bad if the CultClassic status of the craze didn't raise new interest in this music. While some bands are relatively easy to find in used record stores ({i.e. {Lush}}, KitchensOfDistinction, TheBooRadleys), some other artists (i.e. Lilys, Moose, Majesty Crush) are damn near impossible to find without paying an arm and a leg. Sometimes even ''when'' the recording is available via audio cassette or CD, it's in terrible condition and isn't even worth paying so much for.

* Before they signed with Hopeless (and graduated from high school), AllTimeLow had two releases on a regional imprint: ''The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End,'' an EP; and ''The Party Scene,'' a full-length. Five of the songs on the latter were re-recorded on ''Put Up or Shut Up'' ("Break Out! Break Out!", "The Girl's a Straight-Up Hustler", "The Party Scene", "Running from Lions", and "Lullabies"), but the rest have been out of print for years and are almost never played live, so the only way to hear them is to track down an MP3 download somewhere. In fact, Alex apparently has the only known physical copy of the former, which suggests that he himself leaked it.
* You kind of have to resort to this if you really want to hear TheFlamingLips' ''Zaireeka'' and don't have four cd players to play the the four discs at once. While there are stereo remixes of "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" released as b-sides to the "Waiting For A Superman" single, the band have refused to put out a single disc version because it wouldn't sound right. There ''are'' still plans to release a DVD surround sound version of the album though. Until then, well, suffice it to say that there are fan-made stereo mixes of varying quality out there.

** Bootlegging is also the only way to obtain recordings of his concerts in full length. ''Jarre in China'' is the sole exception, and it was released in full length because thousands of fans requested it by e-mail.

** Because Apple Corp., the corporation that manages TheBeatles' copyrighted materials, is slow and inefficient and has strange priorities when it comes to group productions. Many Beatles songs have not been properly remastered since 1987, and those songs likely won't hit the internet until the remastering is finished....

* PinkFloyd's ''Masters of Rock'' went out of print before the transition to CD, and many of the songs on it are original singles that were only ever released individually, or on ''Masters of Rock''.It doesn't seem likely that it will ever be rereleased either, due to a combination of song rights (some were written by other bands, who may or may not even have the rights) and OldShame. As such, bootlegging is rampant.

* {{Pantera}}'s first four albums will probably never be reprinted ever again, for [[OldShame various reasons]].
** [[OldShame Thank God]]

* When BobDylan left Columbia Records in the early 70s for Asylum Records, Columbia released an album cleverly called "Dylan" of some of the less-usable outtakes (they range from listenable to unexceptional to downright awful). This move was partially motivated by profit and partially by revenge. A few years later, Dylan was back to Columbia and the album has largely been buried, never released on CD (though it apparently can now be purchased through iTunes).

* DonnaSummer's 1981 album, ''I'm A Rainbow'', was a deliberate effort to shed her 1970s disco diva image. However, her label, Geffen Records, was unhappy with the result, and the album in its entirety would not be released for another 15 years, despite a small number of the tracks appearing on film soundtracks. This would also be her last collaboration with famed composer-producer Giorgio Moroder.

* Bad Religion's second album ''Into The Unknown'' will most likely never make it to CD, although this is actually a deliberate case of CanonDiscontinuity on the part of the band themselves (see it's entry in OldShame for details on why).

* There was a trance remix of {{Vangelis}}' "Pulstar" by an artist calling himself Majestic 12 (perhaps an actual member of that secret society?) in 1999, that was never released to the public, although it was leaked and distributed by a few P2P users in the early 2000s. Pretty much LostForever.

* If it wasn't for YouTube a lot of old school hip-hop videos (and old skool vids in general) would have been lost into the ether. Keep in mind there isn't a VH1 Classics for urban music videos. There was BETJ but they only played a few token old skool vids, Same with "centric". Even then HipHop was persona non grata. But YouTube was a great source for old school urban music vids....Excluding the whole WMG thing of course.