World of Weird Al Yankovic

Orthography Enthusiast wrote:I bought all my albums after 2002, so those would be the Volcano ones, right? And I definitely have "Bite Me." It's caught me by surprise twice while I was driving.

That sounds DANGEROUS! LOL!

caseyk27 wrote:I still hope to find a used Scotti Bros. Edition of OTDE at FYE or the Pearl Street Mall since I've also heard the the Volcano Editions cut off "Bite Me." Can anyone confirm this? The only place I read it was on Wikipedia.

I remember, when I first got into Al in 8th Grade, I decided to go get some of his albums at a used CD store since I didn't have oodles of money to spend on new CD's. I found a Scotti Bros. copy of OTDE and GHv2 and a copy of Poodle Hat (Needless to say, I worn them out pretty quickly). Thanfully, my copy of OTDE has "Bite Me"! And I got my copy before I even knew about the song! (My copy of Nevermind also has "Endless, Nameless" Double Yes!)

Orthography Enthusiast wrote:I bought all my albums after 2002, so those would be the Volcano ones, right? And I definitely have "Bite Me." It's caught me by surprise twice while I was driving.

Wait, did you also happen to buy ALL your albums from weirdal.com?

Man, I don't have ANY ALbums. And now I can only get 10 out of 12. Digital albums just don't seem cool. I hate living in the 21st century.

Jesus, you could just go onto Amazon and get them for like, three bucks a pop...

And how could you not own ANY of his albums?!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!

Yeah, well, I don`t really own any album neither.

I tried finding them, I shook up every Archambeault, every disk store, but I found nothing. I should have guessed, since I`m Quebecer. I somehow can listen to all these songs thanks to Youtube, I have no other chance...

Is there an official source that says Polka Party and UHF are out of print? Wikipedia isn't official, people. I won't believe until I know where that info is coming from.

Record labels don't typically just stop printing essential albums in a well known artist's catalog...

They're only available on Amazon (physically) from third-party sellers--new copies of Polka Party! are going for $60.

But in searching--is UHF the DVD out of print as well?

I pity the fool who pays sixty bucks to some guy on the Internet and then receives "Polka Party" in exchange. I would love to see the look on his face as he gives the CD a first listen.

weirdojace wrote:Is there an official source that says Polka Party and UHF are out of print? Wikipedia isn't official, people. I won't believe until I know where that info is coming from.

My original info came from Amazon and FYE. Since then, other retailers have confirmed that they've become unavailable. Whether or not someone just copied the info I posted here and on my site onto Wrongapedia, I dunno.

Record labels don't typically just stop printing essential albums in a well known artist's catalog...

They might if those albums haven't sold well. There has not been any official word on the reasoning, but the fact that both "Polka Party!" and "UHF" have yet to go Gold after two decades probably had something to do with it.