History KeepCirculatingTheTapes / Music

* The proper ''{{Film/Kids}}'' soundtrack is out of print and with no digital distribution - The Folk Implosion's compilation ''Music For KIDS'', released in 2023, helped rectify this though: All eight of the group's tracks from the original album were included, as were pieces that were written for the film but unused, remixes and alternate versions. Since most of the rest of the soundtrack consisted of licensed, previously released material by various other artists, the only tracks that remain lost are "Mad Fright Night" by Lo-Down and "Casper" by Music/DanielJohnston [[note]]a completely different song from Johnston's "Casper The Friendly Ghost", which was ''also'' on the soundtrack album[[/note]]

* Transa's 2003 double album ''Chronology'' includes most of their prior discography, but a number of singles and b-sides, such as "Interphase", "Enervate", "Carla's Theme", and "Astro Dawn", didn't make the cut. ''Chronology'' itself has fallen victim to this trope in recent years, and goes for EUR 66.95 ($73.76) on eBay.

* Eurobeat label Delta's ''Eurobeat Masters'' albums were delisted from iTunes and Junodownload due to legal conflicts with Avex Trax (the publishers of Super Eurobeat). They are still being circulated in CD form if you know where to look. Or you can skirt the law and search for them on file sharing services. They're still available for download on Amazon's [=MP3=] service, however. Probably not for long though.

* ''Freudiana'', released in 1990 under the name of Eric Woolfson (but often credited to Music/TheAlanParsonsProject), has never seen any sort of official re-release, not even on streaming services.
** ''The Sicilian Defence'', also by Music/TheAlanParsonsProject, was recorded in 1979 but has never seen the light until its release in 2014, however only as part of the ''Complete Albums Collection'' box set, as a bonus CD. Because of that and [[AudienceAlienatingPremise its experimental, atonal nature]], it will probably never be released on streaming services, vinyl or even as a stand-alone release.

* Music/BadReligion's second album ''Into the Unknown'' will most likely never make it to CD, although this is actually a deliberate case of BuryYourArt on the part of the band themselves. That said, it has been reissued on vinyl... but is only available as part of the box set ''30 Years of Bad Religion'', which features records of all 15 studio albums the band had released up to 2010.

Music/TouhouFanMusic has [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes/TouhouFanMusic its own page]].

* Anaïs Mitchell's first album, ''The Song They Sang When Rome Fell'', is completely impossible to find outside of pirating it. Officially, it doesn't even exist; her website's discography section doesn't acknowledge it as ever having happened.

* ''Musicdisk'', the 2004 professional album by Purple Motion of the Future Crew {{demoscene}} group, has long since gone out of print, so the only way to obtain it is through Bittorrent or other file sharing services, or as an expensive used copy if that is possible.

* An entirely different alternate music video for the Music/JasonDonovan song "Every Day (I Love You More)" exists, which was filmed on the same set as in the music video for "Sealed with a Kiss" and tells the story of how the Australian heartthrob fell in love with a girl while he was working in a beach hut. While the later music video was the one released and promoted, the earlier music video fell into obscurity for unknown reasons. The closest thing to seeing the actual alternate music video for this song is a few behind-the-scenes photos that were taken for a Jason Donovan annual book from late 1989-early 1990 (?) Other than that, the video is hard to find and it is actually unknown if it aired or not before it was replaced by the later music video we're used to seeing.

* ''Forty Licks'', the most comprehensive GreatestHitsAlbum by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, has been out of print since 2008 due to rights issues. Though a more comprehensive one, ''GRRR!'' came out in 2012, and even included one of the four new songs from ''Forty Licks''.

* The full unmixed version of "Dude in the Moon" by Dastrix (a short version was featured in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: High Stakes'') was only released on vinyl, and the record label went under long ago. Same for many of Mike Koglin's other early projects, e.g. The Argonauts.

* The Screamers were one of the earliest punk groups to prominently use synthesizers, they got some notable press coverage and sold out shows in their native Los Angeles while they were together, and they have been cited as an influence by bands like Music/DeadKennedys. They also never officially released any recordings in their six years of existence: They planned on making their first "album" a series of music videos (though this idea was decided on years before Creator/{{MTV}} was around), but broke up before this could be finished. Target Video officially released a DVD of a live performance from 1978, but otherwise one has to resort to bootlegged concerts or rehearsal tapes to hear them.

* The original video for [[Music/{{Vektroid}} Macintosh Plus]]'s [[MemeticMutation memetic]] {{vaporwave}} tune "Lisa Frank 420/Modern Computing" was struck down on Website/YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment due to the song's unauthorized sampling of Diana Ross's "It's Your Move", although another user, Sun Levi, made a FanVid for the song utilizing clips of early CGI short films. Worse, the currently available (streaming only) version of the ''Floral Shoppe'' album on Bandcamp is missing three tracks, including "420", likely also for copyright reasons, and the physical edition has been banned from sale on Discogs and possibly other websites.

* One of ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'''s trailers has a particularly epic rendition of the series theme "Vuelie" sung by Music/{{Aurora}} that has not been released on the soundtrack or elsewhere.

* Freestyle artist Precious's only full-length album, ''Big Girls Don't Cry'', is practically impossible to find, having exactly zero listings on eBay and the Discogs marketplace, along with being "currently unavailable" on Amazon.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer (Sherwood), singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer Tracks''(unfortunately not including the full version of said song, which was only released on ''Dancemania Delux 4'') [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, and has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer (Sherwood), singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer''(unfortunately not including the full version of said song, which was only released on ''Dancemania Delux 4'') [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, which has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer (Sherwood), singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer''(unfortunately not including the full version of said song, which was only released on an ultra-rare ''Dancemania'' promo) [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, which has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer, singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer''(unfortunately not including the full version of said song, which was only released on an ultra-rare ''Dancemania'' promo) [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, which has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer, singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer''(unfortunately not including the full version of said song) [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, which has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

** Speaking of which, Jennifer, singer of the ''DDR'' song "If You Were Here", released a full-length album titled ''Euro Diva Jennifer'', including the full version of said song, [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] in late 2001, which has since remained out of print and sells for up to ''$1,000'' on Discogs.

* The Screamers were one of the earliest punk groups to prominently use synthesizers, they got some notable press coverage and sold out shows in their native Los Angeles while they were together, and they have been cited as an influence by bands like Music/DeadKennedys. They also never officially released any recordings in their six years of existence: They planned on making their first "album" a series of music videos (though this idea was decided on years before Creator/{{MTV}} was around), but broke up before this could be finished. Target Video officially released a dvd of a live performance from 1978, but otherwise one has to resort to bootlegged concerts or rehearsal tapes to hear them.

* In the late 80s through early 2000s, Creator/MercedesLackey often wrote FilkSongs to go with her work, especially the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar novels including the Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy. They helped her define crucial elements of these stories. Unfortunately, these were published through Firebird Arts, which seems to have quietly disintegrated and even Lackey herself can't get a response from the owners. The songs can now only be accessed through unlicensed uploads.