Its been a LONG time since the last update, and while the news for me isnt particularly good, the news for music lovers seems to always be getting better.

URGH! Is now available on DVD!

Mind you, its not what one might have hoped for, but its the best yet. Warner Brothers has decided to release Urgh! With one song missing (amazingly, NOT Gary Numan, but Splidgeness Abounds) as part of its On Demand system. You pay 20$, they send you a DVD-R. The good news is the sound and video are a vast improvement over my edition and all of the others I've seen. The bad news is its NOT a film re-master, but simply a digital transfer made from what WB called “The best available video copy”. A source in WB tells me that the decision to do this was based on some legal precedence that defines digital copies of broadcast material under broadcast, and not digital distribution. Under this direction, the DVD comes with basic 10 minute chapter marks, rather than by song. Effectively, they are selling you a bootleg copy of the version they own the broadcast and VHS rights, and hoping no one will lawyer up on them. T o be honest, I wouldnt take that bet, and I'm buying a copy and keeping it backed up 5 ways. Its entirely possible that they havent even contacted Copeland about it. That is the media company way. Have your lawyer get permission later.

I would encourage everyone who loves Urgh! To buy a copy. This is our part of this deal. WE love it, and now that we can pay SOMEONE for the product, we should.

http://www.wbshop.com/Urgh+-A-Music-War-+EST-MOD/1000112990,default,pd.html

This also seems like a good moment to look back on 8 years of this and realize that the world iscatching up and its time to move on. With the development of on demand purchase, eventually almost everything stored everywhere will be available for a price. On top of that, I've just grown too busy to keep up the work, and as anyone whos been watching knows, its been a LONG time since I've added anything to the list. Financial limitations have required long work hours and travel. IN addition, some experimentation divulged the fact that the computers I was using to do this work were using as much as 40$ a month in electricity. I wont say that there will be no more new videos, because I'm sure there eventually will. Just not at the pace there once was. I just dont have the time to dedicate to this anymore, and I think the chances of something I've spent 20 hours working on suddenly appearing for sale legitimately in a month makes that a losing proposition for me in most cases. I will not be removing the list (as of now), and you can still ask me about getting copies of anything listed. It just wont be a work in progress so much as a record of work accomplished. I will also update the front page whenever something on the list gets an official release. For example, you can get am official IMPORT only release of Thomas Dolby's videos here:

http://www.amazon.com/Singular-Thomas-Dolby-DVD-Remastered/dp/B001PSQFZU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1251772102&sr=8-3

and you can find the remastered Golden Age Of Wireless that includes the concert video Live Wireless here:

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Wireless-Remastered-Expanded/dp/B00288AXL8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1251772102&sr=8-1

A word of warning however: As more and more things become legitimately available, this list has the potential to become a liability to me, so it may not be here forever, and as such I may not be able to honor requests forever.