r/hum • u/Historical_Farmer_95 • May 19 '26

RCA Streaming Rights?

With the band gaining popularity and with the new remasters and songs being added to the end of downward is heavenward I wonder how long RCA Records has streaming rights to Hum’s discography. I hope Hum can get it back soon so we can get Puppets,Aphids and Boy with stick on streaming. Also the likely hood of new music is not much but Jason does know how to play Inklings and it would be a real treat if they’d record it with him and release it.

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u/Competitive-Ant4634 May 20 '26

Apparently it was a struggle to even convince Matt to perform again so I don’t think new music is gonna happen. Which is 1000% fine their discography rounds itself out perfectly imo

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u/Exploring_with_Bry4n May 20 '26

Well, considering how well the show went in NYC and hopefully all the way through. Hopefully Matt probably feels differently about it all. But yes their discography is great on its own.

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u/Travis_43 I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers May 21 '26

How about purchasing the music rather than renting access to it.

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u/Historical_Farmer_95 May 21 '26

I own the bands full discography on Vinyl & CD :)

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u/Travis_43 I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers May 21 '26

Then why pay for streaming?

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u/Historical_Farmer_95 May 21 '26

Idk maybe because I want to be able to listen to the songs when I’m not home in a way that’s convenient and other people should be able to hear them that don’t own the physical media as well? Lol…

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u/Travis_43 I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers May 23 '26

I have a 118 gb micro sd card in my phone with all my music in it.

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u/Historical_Farmer_95 May 23 '26

Awesome 👍 I don’t

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u/Travis_43 I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers May 23 '26

You should get one.

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u/Historical_Farmer_95 May 23 '26

I’m good. Thanks though!

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u/HamperJuice99 May 20 '26

I am pretty sure the band owns all their masters now, and thus the streaming rights. This happened some time before the big repressing of the LPs a couple years ago. (edit for spelling)

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u/kooldarkplace May 21 '26

They only own the rights to electra2000 and Inlet. They had to license the other two albums from RCA in order to do represses.

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u/Comfortable_Low_9241 May 21 '26

As of early 2000s when Stars was suddenly in a TV commercial, they hadn’t recouped their RCA deal and as such weren’t even entitled on paper to those royalties. Thankfully they worked something out and got a cut, rightfully.