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Apr 14, 2009 - 3:53 PM
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MMM
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"You have to consider that when it was released, the 'market' was very different."
The flaw in that statement is that if the market has changed, then the mentality of the new market should apply to rare items released just before the market changed. If 1,200 copies of limited-editions will sell out overnight now, then why aren't people buying the measley 1,200 copies of THE LOST WORLD that were pressed just a few years ago? The CD is just as rare as 1,200-unit pressings being issued now, and the music is just as good. The market should not refuse to buy a limited pressing done two years ago because for some reason, those 1,200 units are somehow different from 1,200 units in 2009! What's different about them? If your statement about recordings being "forgotten" after only two years is true, then all Intrada would have to do is post on their site that people should "remember" that they just released this two years ago and there are only 1,200 copies pressed -- according to that logic, it would then sell out in a mere few hours.
I guarantee you that if a soundtrack label discovered an extra 500 copies of a rare release like THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, even though it was manufactured in the "old market," that it would sell out very fast. Simply because there is a desire for that particular title, regardless of when it was initially released. It isn't just the collector's mentality of the market that dictates sales -- once you get over that 1,000-unit minimum, it's the desire for a specific recording that is important. Not the composer, not the label, not much of anything other than whether the niche market cares about that particular recording. And all I'm stating is that the market cared to buy 1,000 copies of those two particular Baxter scores. There is no proof that other Baxter scores would sell better or worse based on how this release sold.
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Apr 14, 2009 - 4:16 PM
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dogplant
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There is no proof that other Baxter scores would sell better or worse based on how this release sold.
I must admit, it was my fondness for the film "Master of the World" that made me click that 'buy' button, more so than a great familiarity with the music; the score samples sounded cool, but it was my memory of seeing the movie in a rerun in the UK when I was about seven years old that made this an essential purchase.
It's been years since I saw "X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes," but I loved that movie, too, albeit for different reasons (it terrified me on TV at about age 10). Not sure how this would stand up for me now, but I was wondering what this score is like, and would that be a possible future Baxter release?
But 'future' is the operative word, please, because my poor credit card is hemorrhaging!
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I'm just happy the damned thing finally got released and delighted that I got one. 
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ah-HAH! I KNEW I was right.
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