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Never before released soundtracks which requires me to invest in antiquated hardware or I can't listen to it. Not to mention I don't have a place for such a set up. Instead of giving us the option of a CD or digital files, someone will rip it and put it online for free instead. Thousands of lost sales.
Just let someone else do the work (they will) of putting a nice mastered copy on YouTube and just download it while you wait for someone with a shred of rationale to release the CD. BOOM...free score. I'm fairly certain another producer is gathering a much more complete set for us anyway. In the meantime, to celebrate the stupidity of putting it on an obsolete and inefficient format first...download and enjoy the free music when it pops up.
I doubt this post will go down well with the forum admin. I don't want this thread locked, sir.
Yes. Dan, can we not promote and encourage "free music" on a music website, please? While we don't freak out about YouTube generally, putting "nice mastered copies" onto youtube is not something we want to encourage here. Surely we all know this by now.
Thank you.
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Mar 7, 2018 - 9:59 AM
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SchiffyM
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I have less than zero interest in this music, so this doesn't affect me, but I am sorry for those who have been waiting so long for this music on CD.
I also totally get why it seems looney to release music this way. My turntable is in the attic, gathering dust.
But to many millions of people, CDs are completely non-existent. Music exists in two ways: Digitally, via streaming (or download in a pinch), or physically on LPs. Feel free to call these people clueless, or hipsters, or whatever name you like. But CDs hold no appeal to them – if you're going to get digital music files, why bother with the ugly clutter of CDs when it can simply stream to your stereo or your phone (or load them onto your hard drive, sometimes in high resolution)? An LP, on the other hand, is tangible (the analog sounds that come from it feel more substantial than the ones and zeros on a plastic disc). The effort required to play it and actually listen to it is a feature, not a bug.
Of the twenty people I work with (most of whom are in their twenties and thirties), only two have dedicated CD players. (Several have gaming systems that can play CDs, though they don't use them for that.) Seven have turntables. (Two of those are the people who have CD players.)
Roll your eyes all you want. But this is real, and many of those people are as mystified that we would want a CD as we are by what they want.
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Millions of people are not going to buy this. Millions of people do not want this. The target audience for the niche market of score fans, within a niche market of animated TV series scoring, is not millions of people.
It's irrelevant what millions of people are buying what in what formats, all that matters of what the people who are going to buy this, want. And as another member noted (I think this thread) ever comments he's seen from the fans are people asking for a CD.
Are those the minority? Are the fans more into LP's? We'll see.
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SchiffyM:
You're right, Justin. Millions of people will not be buying a 2000 copy item.
You're the one who brought up what millions of people want in what kind of format style, in a thread with a release limited to 2,000 units.
Did the pandas tell you to leave out that comma? I ask in jest.
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We are currently not working on a transformers release nor do I forsee one in the future.
The current marketplace is as such
No one at the studios or labels care about cds any more. To them its dead. The only physical product they want to focus on is vinyl. We had to make a deal recently where we had to agree to do a vinyl pressing in order to get the rights for a CD release.
They say it's hard out there being a pimp, but I think it's even harder being a soundtrack producer who only wants to focus on CD releases.
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We had to make a deal recently where we had to agree to do a vinyl pressing in order to get the rights for a CD release.
Yeesh! That's blackmail! O.o
Thank you guys for not giving up on CD's.
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They don't see the CD market exists for specialty labels still?
To quote an old beer commercial: "That's pretty thick headed..."
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