Quality of New MoFi recordings

I'm not sold on the explanation that the strange MoFi releases are a consequence of what they had access to. For instance, since they released two Dylan Columbia Albums, my guess is that they had access to the whole catalog and chose not to produce any more. Their best selling album was "DSOTM", but they didn't even do "Atom Heart Mother" until the very end of the first incarnation and never did "Wish You Were Here" at all, both being Columbias (in the US), as well. Let's see, "Wish You Were Here" or Steeleye Spann's "All Around My Hat" or Huey Lewis and the News for that matter? I can see them sitting around the table, "Yes, let's take Huey Lewis and the News, there's a notion!"

Interesting that they stopped at one Yes album and one Led Zep album too. No Janice Joplin, even though they seem to have had access to the Columbia Vaults. And don't get me started on the classical and jazz choices.

It has to do with cost and if the manufacturer would bring out thier own audiophile version. If they were thinking about it or some other company offered more money then they would revoke the licence on the spot, like the Columbia Halfspeed, Direct Disk & others.Thats what happened to MFSL Janis Joplin's Pearl.
How much money would you gamble if that happened to your company?

when you do the math, its a miracle we;re getting as many cool new vinyl titles as we are. god bless, mofi and anyone big or small with enough passion to get these titles through the legal sausage factory and into production.

sony has a vinyl agreement with scorpio in perpituity for thousands of sony/cbs/columbia titles(so mofi may indeed be restricted). on the pink floyd stuff(then and now) the band controls who gets what. sublicensing is an incredibly convoluted process, and every 'title'(even from the same artist) is really indeed a different bag of worms.

Hevac 1 and Jaybo, thanks so much for the thoughtful insight, that makes a lot of sense. Although it explains why MoFi did not bring out certain issues, I don't think there will ever be a way to explain why they chose to bring out some of the stuff that they did.