I just got this on eBay (it was listed as "original CD," I thought the price was too good to be true) and good god, the whole design of the things is AWFUL. The artwork looks like it was put together in Paint and it just reeks of "let's just whack this online with as minimal effort as possible."
Have the original release by Sonic Images since quite some time, and I enjoy it quite a bit. Actually I like this even more than Giacchino's Jurassic World-scores so far.
And well, I dig the artwork on the original release! It's a great album all around, although I never quite understood why they decided to have a bunch of extra tracks on the end of the album unmentioned.
From what I understand, these tracks are unused in the game, but I'm not sure on that since I never played it.
From what I understand, these tracks are unused in the game, but I'm not sure on that since I never played it.
I played it a lot and yeah, the bonus tracks are not in the game as far as I recall.
That's hideous. I can see why you (or the Twitter user, if that isn't you) thought it would be a bootleg. But even the front, with the late nineties CG trees (from the game itself, presumably), to the cut out T-rex motif to the poorly resized and reformatted logo. Actually I think that text is just a font, rather than being an official logo.
Yeah, I enjoy it a lot. The game was on those where you could put the disc in a CD player and it would play the music, so I've had a rip of that for the last 20 years or so. Only downside is that it was all one track, so it's nice to have some cue titles, finally.
Kind of odd... one of the strategys to sell Vinyl these days is the great and often unique artwork the companies apply to their releases... but apparently these folks don't think that good artwork might work on a CD release as well. This one makes you really wonder why you're supposed to buy a physical copy.
