Pink Floyd Pulled Offline
Several albums disappear from online retailers as deal expires
Several of Pink Floyd’s albums disappeared from digital music stores around the world yesterday as a distribution deal came to an end.
The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut are no longer available from digital stores such as iTunes and 7Digital after a distribution deal between the band and their record label EMI expired.
The news comes just a few months after Pink Floyd successfully won a legal battle with EMI, which ended in the record label paying the group a substantial settlement as part of a dispute over online royalty payments. The band successfully banned the label from breaking up their albums and selling individual tracks on the internet.
The band are now said to be looking to secure a new deal to licence the band's complete back catalogue for internet downloads.