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I buy all of my music on CD, all my movies/TV shows on DVD/Blu-ray and buy actual books. To say not doing CDs anymore purely because a minority still buy them is ridiculous. It's like saying game developers will forever make their games multiplayer because only a small minority plays single. I never play multiplayer.
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The licensors don't know their consumer base then. Most soundtrack collectors desire CD's. Followed by downloads. Or LLL, Intrada, Quartet, Varese, Kritzerland, etc wouldn't be in business. But I suspect the licensors don't care who their selling the music to. The music is irreverent.... Wanna try that again, Sol? The Solium Governale
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The licensors don't know their consumer base then. Most soundtrack collectors desire CD's. Followed by downloads. Or LLL, Intrada, Quartet, Varese, Kritzerland, etc wouldn't be in business. But I suspect the licensors don't care who their selling the music to. The music is irreverent.... Wanna try that again, Sol? The Solium Governale
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Mar 7, 2018 - 9:32 PM
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But I suspect the licensors don't care who their selling the music to. The music is irreverent. It's just an excuse to sell collectible's. Soundtrack albums have always – always – existed as both music and souvenir, to greater and lesser extents of course, varying by film, composer, and purchaser. Most of us here prefer film art on our soundtrack releases, despite that being irrelevant to the listening experience. Some here post photos of how they proudly display their CD collections. Others obsess over catalog numbers, or pride themselves on being completists when it comes to certain composers, film series, or labels. So there is a collectibility aspect already, and always has been, though of course not everybody defines himself as a "collector" per se. I have to imagine there are more collectors of '80s cartoon memorabilia than there are fans of these underscores for pure listening.
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Mar 7, 2018 - 9:58 PM
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Solium
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But I suspect the licensors don't care who their selling the music to. The music is irreverent. It's just an excuse to sell collectible's. Soundtrack albums have always – always – existed as both music and souvenir, to greater and lesser extents of course, varying by film, composer, and purchaser. Most of us here prefer film art on our soundtrack releases, despite that being irrelevant to the listening experience. Some here post photos of how they proudly display their CD collections. Others obsess over catalog numbers, or pride themselves on being completists when it comes to certain composers, film series, or labels. So there is a collectibility aspect already, and always has been, though of course not everybody defines himself as a "collector" per se. I have to imagine there are more collectors of '80s cartoon memorabilia than there are fans of these underscores for pure listening. Fair enough, but it still doesn't change the fact score collectors choose CD's as the preferred medium.
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I still do not understand why a Holy Grail soundtrack like this has been licensed to those never-heard-before online shops, instead to be licensed to a big and specialized soundtrack label such as Lalaland or Intrada. It's weird. Only 2000 copies? Only vinyl? Very few earnings to be divided between Sony, Hasbro, the retailers and the author. I can't believe they have remeastered and printed this (partial) score to earn a few pennies! This situation is CRAZY. Thousand of Transformers fans will be VERY disappointed. Piracy is on the way. I have to agree. I just want the music , this is the one score that I would trade everything in my collection for....and I'll probably miss it because it's such a limited release.
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solium: The licensors don't know their consumer base then. Most soundtrack collectors desire CD's. Followed by downloads. Or LLL, Intrada, Quartet, Varese, Kritzerland, etc wouldn't be in business.
If the few comments thus far from fans of the show are indicative, then Hasbro will soon enough find out the error in their ways. We'll see. Soundtrack collectors prefer downloads? Wasn't it MovieScore MEdia a few years ago who said the downloads were selling poorly? Maybe it's working on wider platforms than label-specific titles. But I suspect the licensors don't care who their selling the music to. The music is irreverent. (Edit: Irrelevant) It's just an excuse to sell collectible's. LPs with shiny new packages, since that appears to be the fad right now. And every business wants to cash in on the latest and greatest fads.
Nah, I'm sure they care. As MV has stated, LP's are expensive to produce and time-consuming to make as opposed to CD's (I think a year to two years was a time frame given for LP's -- just to make them; if the batch is error ridden, you can imagine the nightmare of starting over again). Then there is the cost of preparing masters, mastering, package designing, re-use fees, etc., etc., etc. -- so they care 'cause they have to have a target audience and a consumer base, otherwise the release would be like opening a window and tossing cash out of it while squealing like a piggy, "WEEEEE!!! WEEEEE!!!!" Can't disagree with the LP part. Even Intrada said they might do it, since the fad is a current fad. Ultimately, they should have shuffled score releases to a label who wants to handle them, like La La Land Records and not made the niche market of score fans, for a niche market of fans of a certain animated series' scoring, even more of a niche market by putting it out on only LP.
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Yeah, but MV already addressed it a few posts up a few days ago: "We are currently not working on a transformers release nor do I forsee one in the future."
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