The Wall and Other Great Pink Floyd Albums Removed From Digital Stores [Downloads]

Selling individual tracks online isn’t very the best thing Pink Floyd has been raging against recently. The band has removed several albums from iTunes, Amazon et al because of EMI’s contract expiring at the top of June.

The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here and The general Cut have all disappeared owing to record label issues. Now that Pink Floyd’s contract with EMI has ended, the band is in search of a new label to license its complete catalog-ensuring, needless to say, that albums aren’t chopped up with songs sold individually.

While The Wall has sold extremely well since EMI took it on back in 2000 (sales amount to at least one.5m inside the US alone), only 107,000 of those were digital sales.

Some of Pink Floyd’s earlier albums, like The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Dark Side of the Moon are still available to download, as EMI still has the license for those.

Pink Floyd, like The Beatles and Radiohead, remain a kind of bands taken with the digital release of its art. It’s entirely understandable, but removing some of their greatest albums from online will only be further incentive for folk to amass them by unscrupulous means. [Reuters via TechRadar]

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