Classic and/or acclaimed albums that are inexplicably out of print and not available to buy in digital format either

Ornette's Crisis: concert incl. Haden, Cherry, Redman, Denardo--one of D.'s earliest issued performances, if not the first, and its knockabout surety totally fits w overall: in space jungle settings, but no fantasy, converging on-point performances x some of their strongest, zeitgeist-charged material as of 1969 (incl. Haden's "Song For Che"). Effective room ambience, mostly just the right amount of shadowy echo, in whatever room at NYU.
Apparently *never* on CD or download, according to discogs, but the LP's been reissued several times, and whole thing's currently on YouTube (don't sleep)

This was reissued on CD by Real Gone Music a year or two back, paired with another extremely rare one, Ornette At 12.

Saccharine Trust Surviving You Always, their only SST record that isn't available to stream (at least the last time I checked) and not avail on cd or lp.

yep, you can thank Greg Ginn for that

There is something weird and particularly personal about keeping that record of all the SST released unavailable, I mean you can still listen to Worldbroken (and you should cuz that record is something) but SYA is considered their classic and it has always seemed (watching from afar) that Ginn was trying to put the screws to them for some reason.

Weakling - Dead as Dreams

There is something weird and particularly personal about keeping that record of all the SST released unavailable, I mean you can still listen to Worldbroken (and you should cuz that record is something) but SYA is considered their classic and it has always seemed (watching from afar) that Ginn was trying to put the screws to them for some reason.

― chr1sb3singer

i just kind of assumed greg ginn is an all-around terrible human being, on the grounds that basically every single person who has ever known him says he is

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