Hey John,
I can't really help with your question. I do know that BEAM was released on another label (RPM) and it might be there are contractual issues?. I do know the cd goes for astronomical amounts on places like ebay and that's the only way to get the album!. I agree, it would be cool for such a great album to be more available to listener's ears. Hopefully that will be rectified next year with the forthcoming 'best of', which really can't be complete without tracks from BEAM.
L&M
Polly