Straight No Chaser

Some of you may have heard of the Acapella group, Straight No Chaser. Recently, they signed with Warner Music Group. On their youtube page, it says,

You may have read recently about Warner Music Group removing all of their artist's videos
from Youtube. This affected us as well, so many of our videos are no longer available here.
Please visit www.myspace.com/sncmusic to watch The 12 Days of Christmas and send to your
friends!

Now, I am looking for my favorite song from them, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which was posted on December 18th, 2007. There are a few fan videos from the shows they've done, but it's not the same as the original video (which WMG insisted they remove) mostly because Steve Morgan doesn't go as high, and the quality of the videos stink. I was very upset to learn that all their old videos were removed. In my opinion, shouldn't all of their old videos stay, because they were posted BEFORE they signed with WMG? I can understand not letting them keep videos up AFTER they signed...

So I figured, "Ok, fine. Let them have their way. I have a dollar and fourteen cents left in my iTunes account, they'll have the song there for me to buy." So, I opened my iTunes and searched for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Straight No Chaser. Guess what? IT WASN'T THERE. So now, not only can I not hear the original on youtube, but I can't even buy it on iTunes. On one of their videos made especially for YouTube, "The 12 Days of Christmas (2008 version)" (I believe it's called), it says in the sidebar to go to myspace to hear the original 12 Days of Christmas.

Now, my friends who know me, also know that I HATE myspace and facebook and all of those internet communication sites. Although, I was so desperate to hear the song that I actually went to myspace and looked up Straight No Chaser's page. Guess what? IT'S NOT THEIR EITHER.

So now, I'm left with nothing of the song. THANKS A LOT WMG. I mean, if they're going to make them get rid of the videos, at least make the song BUYABLE. -.-

I think that Straight No Chaser should fight WMG for the rights to have their original preformaces publicized the way they want. WMG should NOT have control over the music recorded BEFORE they were signed.

What can someone do to get this song the way it was originally sung by Straight No Chaser?

Please leave a comment if you agree!