"AVC: So where's the State DVD?
DW: We put together these beautiful masters of our entire series, did commentary on every episode, threw in tons of extras, deleted sketches, never-before-seen material of all different types, in a beautiful package, mastered, everything all done. And for some reason, there's been this unwillingness to actually release it. The latest that I've heard is that they are planning on releasing it, probably in the first half of this next year, but I would be foolhardy to promise anything."
I spent approximately half of my high school career quoting the "Pope-a" sketch and others, so many of The State's sketches have been completely internalized. Part of the joy of the show has been sharing bootlegs and YouTube clips with those who haven't seen it before. So far, it's been universally loved.
But I'm terrified that the original music, so necessary to the State experience, will not be present on the DVD's. An AVClub commenter, regarding the "Pants" sketch, laments, "If you've seen the re-relese's of season 1 from I tunes this sketch isn't half as funny with the genneric music they added." [general sic] The song in question is the Breeders' "Cannonball."
I'm totally making up this theory that MTV was able to use any song they wanted on their shows, as long as they had the rights to broadcast the song's video. At that time, the songs were advertisements for albums. Now, with the threat of lost revenue--silly, since they won't release the sure-to-sell DVD's in the first place--royalties are sidestepped.
This same oversight diminished much of the value of "The Real World--The Complete First Season." Dippy synth arrangements instead of B.A.D. II's "The Globe?" No thanks.
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