Talk:James K. Polk (Dial-A-Song Anthology Version)

Streaming services

I brought this up in the Miscellaneous T Facebook group, but I figured I'd bring it up here as well, as it's interesting, confusing, and slightly frustrating, and I feel I only received partial closure in the matter.

I don't own an official copy of Factory Showroom (yet). I'd been listening to the album through my Google Play Music subscription. I noticed that there was a version of this song on YouTube that I had never heard before. I asked about it, and someone told me they thought it was the original version, and the version I had been hearing was the one on the Dial-A-Song Anthology and User's Guide. I didn't believe them at first, but the album that TMBG posted to their YouTube page includes this version I had never heard before, the original.

I kept searching, and it appears that every streaming music service - Google Play Music, iTunes Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and even all websites that sell music digitally (aside from the TMBG Merch Store, I'm guessing) have been distributing the Dial-A-Song Anthology version.

Jon (CapitalQ) discovered from someone that the Factory Showroom LP has the original.

So, why is the rerecorded version being distributed through streaming services? It doesn't really make sense. I mean to a person who isn't a major fan of the band it wouldn't matter all that much, but it just seems bizarre that they'd use that version instead.

We thought maybe the switch happened well before streaming services came into the picture, since iTunes is distributing the rerecording. What do you all think? --Wall_Dough (talk) 16:45, 17 August 2015 (EDT)

Clerical Error

Regarding the fact about the clerical error, here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/tmbg/status/924669161015521280 (the person who asked about it may or may not have been me) -Bouncer15111