Albums that shouldn't be out of print...

Two comps. were released in the US at the start of this decade, so while it's not proper albums, it's not too hard to find SM material.

all those '90s Interscope/Geffen albums by ex/future indiers like Sloan

Sloan's albums are available through their own label (they got the rights to the Geffen ones in the mid-1990s), so they'll probably never go out of print, and you never see the two Geffen ones for more than $8 Canadian in stores.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN SOMEONE REISSUE THAT!

It's also worth saving a search for them on e-bay as they pop up every now and again. I was looking for 'Ocean of Sound' for years but in the last 12 months I've managed to get hold of all five of them over the internet (only got 'Guitars on Mars' a couple of weeks ago). Mostly from e-bay, one from Reckless I think, one from another online shop. Haven't paid more than about £20 for any of them and I got 'Electro for Droids' for about £3.

But obviously reissuing them would be a good idea.

Another album that shouldn't have gone out of print is 'Pacific Ocean Blue' by Dennis Wilson.
All well worth getting,

Anyway, 'Feedback' by Spirit is crying out for reissue, a shitload of Roy Harper, obviously 'Decals', Sixto Rodriguez 'Cold Fact'.

I never thought I'd get them either, and wouldn't have if it was just a case of looking for them in bricks and mortar record shops. Let the net be your friend.

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In the UK you're better off with Netsounds - at least everything advertised there actually exists.

A lot of good calls already, especially Lick My Decals Off Baby, Mecicine Show and the first 3 Comsat Angels, however additional nominations:

Pere Ubu - 390º Of Simulated Stereo; The Tenement Year; Cloudland; Worlds In Collision
Pop Group - everything
Red Krayola - Soldier Talk
This Heat - 1st s/t

actually come to think of it, I don't think there's a proper Lilys album widely in print. I think places have overstocks of some of them, but the only lilys records that show up in most stores I go to, both online and real, are the split with Aspera (demos), the Bliss Out Ep (good, but not really satisfying any Lilys jones), and the "Selected" EP (great, but only 5 songs).

so yeah, someone go ahead and make all that old Lilys stuff available...

I'd also add to the list:

Wall of Voodoo - _Dark Continent_
Oingo Boingo - The first EP. Yes. Oingo fucking Boingo.
The first Bevis Frond albums that came out in the US on Restless (or was it Reckless?) and as far as i know have been OOP for awhile.

-Matt, who grew up in the 80s. Obviously.

But they're still spendy imports...

-Matt, who's only thinking of the children.

Rollins label reissued Y a few years ago didn't it? (Infinite Zero, I think) with "beyond good and evil" as bonus. Is that OOP now?

And George G, wasn't 'Conquistador' reissued by Blue Note on CD abt 5/6 years ago, abt the same time as 'Love For Sale' and 'Unit Structures'?

All I know is I paid far too much to get that one and We Are All Prostitutes on Japanese import!

"I'm always surprised when US ILMers talk abt how diff it is to find the first This Heat alb on CD, as it seems to be widely available here in the UK (Camberwell Now recs, on the other hand...)"

I'm not in the US and I'm having trouble finding it Andrew - do you know where it's currently available (All's Well by Camberwell Now, on the other hand was recently re-released and is available on mail order from http://www.rermegacorp.com/!)

I have a copy of 'til the band comes in from, like, nineteen ninety.