Yet Another Reason to Hate the Record Labels
Their insane licensing fees. Because, you know, there's nothing like stifling the desires of consumers to really make them want your product.
More often, though, skyrocketing music-clearance fees are becoming major stumbling blocks for DVD reissues, often delaying or even completely derailing releases. Take "WKRP in Cincinnati," for example: The 1970s sitcom used so much classic rock that it would cost 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment a mint to clear the tracks. Fox has suggested that it still is considering releasing "WKRP," but others are not optimistic that the comedy and similar shows of its kind will ever make it into the market.
The record labels really need to get over themselves. There is no right for them to make outsize profits in perpetuity.