CD's out of print. Not available for (legal) digital download. I didn't realize that when the group put up download links to their albums a while back. I'm assuming it's a sample clearance thing, right?

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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/de_la_soul_s_free_downloads_the_band_s_long_complicated_copyright_tangle.html

but I can't imagine that they're pressing a lot of CDs of Buhloone Mindstate

if ya really want them

I feel that gives me the right to download them illegally whenever i want to

at least one of their albums went out of print. I had to hit the used market to find it again

Yeah Business Never Personal has been OOP for the longest. I had to replace mine for $30 on eBay.

for authorized sale in the 21st century. b/c that situation kinda leaves consumers w/no choice except to purchase used or unauthorized copies of the product. which leaves the record company and the artist w/o compensation.

they're shooting themselves in the foot. still. cutting their nose to spite their face.

i dunno the particulars of the DLS situation - i'm speaking generally. when i haven't been able to buy a music product via authorized means i've used other means. b/c i'm going to have the product if i want it and can find it - one way or another. the record companies and artists can either take my money or not. it's up to them.

are we really coming up on times when someone will walk into your house and see something that dropped in the late 80s or early 90s and goes off about you having a copy of...?

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Yea, I realized this a while back too... I used to have 3 Feet High & Rising but I lost it along with the rest of my CD collection at the time. I need to download that along with a few more of their albums ASAP. I miss those times.

I had them before, but then I got them from them.

i'm sure sample clearances (lack thereof) has as much to do with it as their old record contracts. you can't just take the uncleared samples out and reissue, ask pharoahe fucking monch.

still, a lot of albums (by great artists in and outside of hip-hop) are OOP and still more go that way all the time. it's frustrating. the time is now if you want a physical copy.

might be a stupid question but these are albums that have been out for a couple of decades. could that really still be an issue?

if so, that's interesting. i wish sampling restrictions were less rigid. i get it, make your money, but come on.

i think the infringed upon have a few years to sue for damages but can issue cease and desist orders so long as they continue to own (and can prove) their copyright. that means the samples have to be cleared after the fact or the sampled material has to fall into the public domain (decades from now).


>if so, that's interesting. i wish sampling restrictions were
>less rigid. i get it, make your money, but come on.

sample suing is a potential cash cow and not just for the original artists (sometimes not them at all because they don't own their masters or are dead)

I didn't realize that the youngins weren't up on De La until they released their albums for free and people really didn't seem to know them like that.

I think music not be available like that is the reason.


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NO De La. nothing. fucked my head up for the first 6 months, then i realized it was probably industry policies fucking it up.

its really bullshit tho.
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