why is tim buckley's starsailor out of print on cd?

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Looking at Rockist Scientist's list, I was reminded of the CD I most covet. Can anyone tell me why, out of all Tim Buckley's albums, and with additional live performances released almost annually, Starsailor remains out of print on CD?

― otto, Monday, 8 December 2003 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps because a crappy band took their name from it?

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

For the same reason that Captain Beefheart's Lick My Decals Off Baby is out of print on cd. Only, I don't know what that reason is. Something to do with ownership of the Straight catalog, presumably.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The great thing is that if Starsailor actually heard the album, they would probably explode.

― Schwingung (Damian), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We can but hope.

― Richard Jones (scarne), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

well part of it is available on the tim buckley comp on rhino. "moulin rouge" is pretty bad, i hope there's nothing else like that on the lp.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like both this and 'Blue Afternoon' are out of print.
Baffling and frustrating.

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 18 July 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like 'mouling rouge' but I think its the weakest track on the album (could be stronger if it was available on one of his other albs but i don't know about that).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 19 July 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

his french accent drives me batty

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i find the beatles' "michelle" more charming because paul is really trying to sound like an english guy who just knows a little french but is doing his best to pronounce it right. buckley is going for some horrible exaggeration cabaret pidgin french. you can feel him twirling a fake moustache.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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