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The Indiana Jones & Star Wars trilogies. The original Empire LP sounds spectacular, as does Steve Hoffman's 1993 DCC LP pressing (better than the very slightly muffled sounding CD equivalent), and I'd be great to have a full set of albums cut from the masters, with superb sleeve artwork, liner notes etc.
The Psycho soundtracks too!
What I'd also like to see from soundtracks on vinyl though is transparancy from the record labels about how the files were transferred to the LP master. It's far too common for bog-standard 16-bit digital files to be converted to analogue, and transferred to LP (the full process is but a Google search away, if anyone is interested, and as modern LPs aren't cheap, you should be  ).
If the LP has been cut from higher-res digital files (24/96 or higher), or even better a full analogue signal chain from mastertape through to finished product with no conversions, then the advantages are potentially there to hear...
LPs cut from 16-bit digital files are a waste of time (unless buying just for the artwork!) and you'd be best getting the equivalent CD, which will sound better as it hasn't gone through the extra steps to make it suitable for transferring to LP.
Most people don't care though. It's an LP so should automatically sound 'warm', 'fantastic', 'analogue' etc.
Know your source!
John.
I agree. Compare , for example, a Varese Sarabande record to a recent soundtrack record. There is a big difference in sound. But you can't really hear that on most modern cheap turntables.
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I do have a few hundred LPs but have never been a vinyl enthusiast and -- in fact -- have always been sceptical that LPs have any actual advantage in sound over compact discs, let alone high-res audio formats such as SACD or Audio-DVD.
So the one reason I'd buy an LP is for display purposes only. Currently, I have the original vinyl of PSYCHO II displayed next to the Intrada release of the score on my shelf.
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Is that a screen name? Sounds like something from Thunderbirds.