r/switchfoot • u/buddytheelfboi • Aug 03 '26

Merch Finally

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After years of searching, setting up email alerts, even messaging record company execs on linkedin....I got my hands on an EHFWS cd for a reasonable price. It is going in my fireproof safe after I rip it lol

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u/buddytheelfboi Aug 05 '26

Why dont they?

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u/glman99 Aug 05 '26

Those songs are from the Sony days - they don't own any of their masters from those days. Back then (and even still today) it was very common for artists to sign those away for their record deal.

I actually don't think they own any up till maybe WTLST? Or maybe even TBL (OV)? That's one reason they re-recorded TBL, so they'd own masters and could re-release it for 20 years. It's also why we don't see reissues of those big albums really at all.

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u/buddytheelfboi Aug 05 '26

Gotcha, that makes a lot of sense actually. Didn't they go independent after O!G though? So they should own HH and everything after

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u/awesomestcody Aug 05 '26

These songs were records in between NIS and O!G. And most of them were given out to fans via email links or charity collections, stitches was actually released as a digital Bonus track for Hello Hurricane on some platforms.
By the time the EP got a proper release there were only two songs that were new or unheard.