Hmmm...Just checked Amazon and it appears the Nick Drake catalogue is currently
out of print in the US...I believe Ryko lost the rights to the catalogue
sometime last year (Polygram/Universal owns the catalogue through their
aquisition of Island; they licensed it to Ryko in part because Joe Boyd
was associated with Ryko; but Boyd is no longer associated with Ryko, so
Universal didn't extend the license). I would have expected the catalogue
to reappear immediately on Island/Polygram/something, but I just read a
review somewhere that implied they were coming out on Columbia (????)

At any rate, is this the first time the catalogue has gone out of print, if
only temporarily. There's some story, perhaps urban legend, that Chris Blackwell
(head of Island until it was purchased by Polygram) promised the Drake catalogue
would never go out of print, regardless of how poorly it sold...

And what about Ryko? Are they still viable? What's the deal with Chris
Blackwell and Island? He bought it then sold it and moved on, or something like that?
They fired a lot of their staff a while back and told the rest to move
to New York state...and now they're back in Mass??

dap