This is a open question for Andrew or anyone that can answer.

All of the Rhino 90's Monkees CDs, are they completely out of print? And for past releases, are they sold out?

I always wonder what the record company do to old pressings, someone told me that they get destroyed, or shipped off to a warehouse and get sold off over time.

I don't think they always get destoyed. Sometimes they get creative. When Rhino discontinued The Monkees LP releases in the early 90s, they took all the LP's and covered the floors of Rhino records with them, so I heard.

Doh! I think they should have kept selling them or liquated them! As there are still a few vinyl collectors out there, AKA me!

I agree. I looked everywhere before I finally found copies of their late 80's LP's. They could have just put them in a warehouse somewhere and sold them as needed. They were trying to phase out LP's, since they were on the way out and Rhino was not going to make any more LP's. But now, they've reissued a few things on LP. But I think the biggest mistake they ever made was not issuing "Justus" on vinyl. All of the Monkees fans needed that one on vinyl for their collections. That just sort of leads me to believe that they didn't think the "Justus" album was essential. Weird, huh?

I wonder what they did to the Listen To The Band box, as that was the best! I don't see why they couldn't have carried both. I don't see the sales of one impacting the other.


With the LTTB, they could have reduced the price etc. They did see fit to licence to Sunrise records or whatever the label is called to produce new vinyl remasters in the late 90s.

Yeah. I think it was Sundazed Records. I kept hoping that "Justus" would come out on Sundazed. But they stopped at "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees." I never bought those, as I had the original Colgems albums. But I would have bought "Justus" on LP if it was available. I think that sales for "Justus" would have been way more if it was issued on vinyl.

Rhino was done w/ vinyl @ the time, since I wrote in to ask what were the chances of Missing Links II being released on Vinyl or reissues of the ML and Live 67 on vinyl w/ bonus tracks and Dr. Rhino said that it's an encouragement to buy the CDs.

They have done some limited edition vinyl reissues over the years or for the handmade lable.

Yeah, they were pushing people to buy CD's, just like every other record company at the time. Talk about a monopoly!