New FSM Store!
by Lukas Kendall
This may mean a lot more to me than it does to you...nevertheless I
am thrilled, ecstatic, speechless to announce our revamped FSM
STORE.
Thanks to our trusty webmaster Bill Smith, the site now features a full
shopping cart system with all of our books,
CDs, and
backissues
easy to browse. Beyond easy. I think it's an aesthetic marvel as well as
a worthwile excuse for me to pitch the splendors of our products on you,
our dear readers.
Please, check it out and sample the CD sound clips as well as the comprehensive
backissue and book descriptions. Navigation is a breeze and so is the check-out
process, with easy to use options for gift-giving and different addresses.
A special thank you goes out to our two dozen or so beta-testers who provided
invaluable feedback as our store neared completion.
As far as our new CDs go, UNTAMED
is now in stock and we have sent out the outstanding orders that accumulated
over the past two weeks. This is a thrilling Franz Waxman adventure score.
I think a lot of words get overused in discussing the best movie music,
the cream of the crop that fans want to hear: "melodic," "symphonic," "sweeping,"
etc. For once all of those apply! I knew next to nothing about Untamed
when we started this CD project and everyone here at FSM has been blown
away by Waxman's themes, grace and craft. Sample the sound clips at the
CD
page and you'll agree.
As for our other new CD, the heavily anticipated TOWERING
INFERNO, we are now told we will have this on Thursday of this week.
We have been holding those orders for Towering Inferno plus any
other item and will ship them all out once we get Inferno, so customers
save on shipping. We are extremely busy this week and ask customers to
please contact us about their order only if it is absolutely necessary.
If you received an email confirmation, we got your order and everyting
will be en route by the end of the week.
I want to say one other thing...for years arguments have
gone back and forth about whether or not bootlegs negatively impact the
chances for a legitimate issue of a particular score. Typically, those
most interested in bootlegs of this or that score have said, aw, of course
not, fans would always buy it again if a proper release came out.
Well...as some collectors know, The Towering Inferno was booted
on CD a couple of years ago -- a truly horrific disc ripped right from
the LP with atrocious sound quality, editing and packaging. Ear-drum-tearing,
this thing. Nevertheless, I have been told by a few customers that they
did not want our new Inferno CD because they "already had it."
I cannot say how hard it is to hear this, because our Inferno
CD was properly licensed from not one but TWO major movie studios (Warner
Bros. and Fox) -- a year's worth of paperwork for yours truly -- has DOUBLE
the playing time of the LP (including many of the previously unreleased
action cues), is newly remixed, and features a gorgeous 16-page booklet
with stills never before seen.
So, it's only two or three people who pooh-poohed our licensed, expanded
version, because they'd rather live with a piece of crap dub of the LP,
but it makes me horrified at how many others might be out there with a
similar attitude.
So, I don't mean to get so righteous as to be annoying...but them's
the facts.
Our Inferno
CD will not disappoint!
Stay tuned!
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