Sometimes it’s the platforms forcefully removing releases. Are those “withdrawn”?
E.g.
- Drowning in the Sewer was changed to a solid white square by Bandcamp. [1] [2]
Starving Slvts Always Get Their Fix (cover replaced) and Cyberia lyr1+2 (release removed) might have been affected for the same reason. (Unfortunately I don’t remember the exact timeline of events but at least for Starving Slvts that seems to be the case based on release date)
Not too long ago quite a lot of their older releases have turned subscription only. I won’t edit the URL relationships though, not worth the effort.
Specific to Germany but perhaps there are other countries with similar laws:
What about confiscated or indexed releases? There are thousands of indexed/confiscated releases
It’s not just whole releases that can be made unavailable but single tracks and videos too, e.g. YouTube:
This content is not available on this country domain due to a legal complaint from the government.
Specifically that track is also no longer available to listen from the album on streaming services and it seems in this case it’s not limited to Germany…
YouTube Music on the other hand removed the album completely in Germany.
The album was indexed in August 2020
Ironically the album seems to have received government funding through the Initiative Musik.
Should I laugh or cry?