Question about DB's discography and the music industry

[alakazam^]

As we all know, most of Dragon Ball's CDs are now out-of-print. I'm a collector and this bothers me A LOT. I don't really know how the music industry works in Japan but I understand there's a window of time where they continue producing each release, right? Why don't they have some kind of on-demand for older stuff? I mean, they still have the masters, the covers and the booklets, what's stopping them from doing it?

Following that idea, how likely would it be for Columbia/Forte Music/etc to sell everything digitally? I'd rather have the physical releases but since 90% of it has been out-of-print for decades why couldn't they just release everything with the original covers, booklets and, heck, don't remaster the music and claim it is to keep the original's spirit for all I care? If we buy them in second hand they won't make any money out of them anyways, so...

Dragon Ball is great but it sucks that most of its merchandise was already unavailable when most of us started to realize it existed.

[VegettoEX]

There was/is a print-on-demand service, actually. Here's one article I found. I remember Castor Troy once buying (I think it was the...) Legends OST off CDJapan which they randomly had in-stock out of nowhere and it turned out it was the print-on-demand version.

I think at this point the biggest problem is game soundtracks and Kenji Yamamoto. He was so heavily involved and responsible for pretty much the entirety of it, and he's being just straight-out stricken from the record.