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Wow. Cha-ching!$$$ You can get Star Trek: The Original Series - Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] for $167 (Run Time: 4120 minutes). So $225 for the score only seems a pretty penny. But I guess La-La Land has to keep the lights on.
Don't forget the accompanying 100-page book. What if those Blu-rays were all Digibooks?
THEN what'd you pay?
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Sep 7, 2012 - 9:32 PM
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adamtrons
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Wow. Cha-ching!$$$ You can get Star Trek: The Original Series - Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] for $167 (Run Time: 4120 minutes). So $225 for the score only seems a pretty penny. But I guess La-La Land has to keep the lights on.
I know you're not being negative, but this is an argument that comes up with some frequency on this board, and I don't understand the comparison. We don't pay per byte of information encoded on disc. This is an economy of scale. The DVDs/Blu-Rays sell vastly more copies, so even if the profit margin per unit is slimmer, multiplied by hundreds of thousands, the profit is there. (The first season of TNG on Blu-Ray sold 92,000 copies just in the first week.) When 6,000 is the most you can sell, you'd better make more on each to make your nut.
SchiffyM no I'm not trying to be negative, I will probably pay the ritzy price and buy it anyway. I just find it ironic that it will cost more to own the music to the series then it does to own the actual complete series on blu-ray (video and music). Let's say the 15 soundtrack CD's each have 70 minutes of music (just guessing here) then you have 1050 minutes of entertainment for $225 as opposed to 4120 minutes of entertainment (from the blu-rays) for $167. If we break it down futher, we are paying approximately .21 cents per minute for the music verses .04 cents per minute of the video and music. I understand your economy of scale argument and that the business needs to make a profit. But I'm looking more at the fair or market value, so to speak. Looking on the internet, I quickly found 15-CD sets and even 20-CD sets of various types of music priced around $50. Of course we can all debate and no one is right or wrong because "Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it" -Jonathan Reeves
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Ouch on the price guys. I gladly put down for the Ron Jones & Dennis McCarthy TNG sets, but I think this is a bit much.
I know, I know, 15 discs, complete score, I have no doubt it will be awesome. Still, ouch.
"Ouch"?
Highly illogical.
. . . Beeeee . . . awesome!
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Sep 8, 2012 - 7:19 AM
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Last Child
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Wow. Cha-ching!$$$ You can get Star Trek: The Original Series - Seasons 1-3 [Blu-ray] for $167 (Run Time: 4120 minutes). So $225 for the score only seems a pretty penny. But I guess La-La Land has to keep the lights on.
I just find it ironic that it will cost more to own the music to the series then it does to own the actual complete series on blu-ray (video and music). Let's say the 15 soundtrack CD's each have 70 minutes of music (just guessing here) then you have 1050 minutes of entertainment for $225 as opposed to 4120 minutes of entertainment (from the blu-rays) for $167. If we break it down futher, we are paying approximately .21 cents per minute for the music verses .04 cents per minute of the video and music. I understand your economy of scale argument and that the business needs to make a profit. But I'm looking more at the fair or market value, so to speak. Looking on the internet, I quickly found 15-CD sets and even 20-CD sets of various types of music priced around $50. Of course we can all debate and no one is right or wrong because "Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it" -Jonathan Reeves
As has been said, you're comparing apples to oranges. The Soundtrack CD market is different from the pop music market. Soundtracks are usually limited quantities priced at $20 a cd (why that price, I dunno). The breakdown here is $15/disc which is a blessing considering the content. Now you could argue a blank cd only costs 15 cents, so why should we pay $15? I'm sure someone else could explain that.
Usually people only compare dvd and soundtrack cd prices if the dvd has the score on isolated music channel (again, apples to apples). When the $200, 14-cd Hermann box (with 100 page book) was released, I dont think anyone seriously claimed it was ironic they could get most of the movies in those cheapo Mill Creek dvd sets.
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Ouch, $225.00. Do not know if I am interested anymore.
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I'm grateful the price is only $15 per disc. Who knows what the associated costs are for a set bogged down by whatever ailed it for so many years?
Speaking of which, it would be nice if that mysterious ailment was addressed in the booklet. It's certainly now a part of Star Trek music history.
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Sep 8, 2012 - 11:52 AM
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Tom Servo
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But I'm looking more at the fair or market value, so to speak. Looking on the internet, I quickly found 15-CD sets and even 20-CD sets of various types of music priced around $50.
I don't know what these sets you found are (I didn't find anything of this size for less than $115, but my search was hardly exhaustive), but I'm guessing they're the umpteenth reissues of catalogue recordings, repackaged in a gift set. The costs associated with producing such a set -- the profits in these recordings having been squeezed thinner for decades and decades, the fees and mastering having been paid off years ago -- are a far cry from the costs of doing this "Star Trek" box.
I'm not sure what you mean by fair or market value, but keep in mind that what's expensive about this set is not the plastic the discs are pressed from or the paper for the packaging.
Agreed, I'm not sure people are really understanding that LaLa Land is a small niche label and the massive amount of money, time and effort it costs to cover license fees, mastering, production, paying the guys who work on these sets and more. This isn't f*cking Sony Music label, people. The small group who produce these sets need to keep the label in business and also pay rent, put food on the table, etc etc. These guys don't produce these sets out of pure kindness. They love it, but it's still a business and an expensive one at that. I will never understanding the bitching and whining that happens here by people who have absolutely no idea how much money and back-breaking work is expended on these albums to bring them at a price which may not even help the label break even. It can be a small fortune to produce a set such as this. Talk about an ungrateful crowd who apparently expect all items they want to cost them only pennies.
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