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Jul 28, 2013 - 10:30 AM
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Henry Jones
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JohnJohnson wrote:
Are the complete recordings still available?
Apparently, the answer is no. Well, to be sharp, the TWO TOWERS set is not currently available anymore -- and no one knows if it'd be pressed again, which means it could or it could not be pressed anymore.
EDIT: The other sets can be found at a more-reasonable price than $2,000. But the'y re also becoming pricey!
Read the excellent piece that our hero Doug Adams wrote about the availability of LOTR complete recordings : http://www.musicoflotr.com/2013/06/the-great-unknowns.html
Excerpts:
"The LOTR: Complete Recordings seem to be very hard to find right now. The Two Towers, in fact, is listed as being out of stock, and is going for astronomical amounts on the secondary market. Will they be back, and if so when?
I've actually enquired about this, but the short answer is, I do not know the answer. The Complete Recordings have always been tricky to keep track of. Shore's company has a say in them, Reprise (the label) has a say in them, Warner Bros (who owns Reprise) has a say, CAMI (who produces the Live to Projection shows) has some say in which way stock is pushed. I, however, have no say. Thus, I don't really have any right to demand information. I can -- and have -- asked the various labels involved about what's going on, but the answers I get back usually involve a lot of checking -- again because there are simply so many fingers in the pie. If I am given information to post, I promise to post it. Otherwise, it's safe to assume that I don't know any more than you do.
It's important to note that the Complete Recordings are a very high-end product aimed at a very specific audience. They're very expensive to produce, thus labels can't go and run off an extra hundred every time stock dips. I know it's easy to assume that record companies are all conspiring to take advantage of the consumer by creating scarcities -- or that they simply are content to ignore the fans -- but this isn't the case at all. When creating something like the Complete Recordings, a company generally has to produce a massive number of units just to make it worth their while. They're paying another company huge amounts of money to create the physical products -- and each commissioned run comes with a hefty price tag. If a company did a short run every few months, they'd lose huge amounts of money, and would never again back projects like this. For such investments to make sense, record companies have to do very large runs once every couple of years. There's never a guarantee when -- or if -- the next run will take place. The labels know far better than I how to judge such things. Presumably, The Two Towers is between print runs. (I don't know this for a fact -- they could have a thousand sitting in a warehouse for all I know.) The decision, therefore, becomes whether or not a new pressing makes financial sense. Past sales are considered along with presumed demand, logarithms, forecasts, politics, chaos theory, and who knows what else! The point is, they have ways of making these decisions, and no one outside of a small handful of people is ever entirely privy to them. I have a hard time imagining that The Two Towers is gone for good ..."
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It looks like I saved myself $3,500 on the Two Towers set (actually, that one I received as a gift). Actually, picking up the complete recordings for me was a no brainer. I loved the music, and the packaging, extent of the score on CD, and the 5.1-channel DVD made it worth it. I only wish the included liner notes were better. The free ones on the website were superior (notes went by tracks, instead of music themes/styles).
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--duplicate post - please delete--
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Yikes! I usually look at eBay completed auctions for a sense of how much something is worth, rather than what astronomical amount people are attempting to charge at Amazon.
Even at Ebay, the Two Towers Complete Recordings set has been selling for $200 to $350 in the last few months.
Glad I was able to buy this when it came out.
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