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If the end of the CD world meant downloads and they were lossless, then hell yes! I'd rather have a favorite score in any audio format over none at all.
I hope and trust that CDs will still be with us for at least a few years or more, but IF, IF, IF Varese felt compelled to DE their catalouge, given the massive size, for the sake of time, downloads could be a faster and more economical way to mass release albums.
Whatever means makes available the music while we are still alive to experience them.
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Whatever means makes available the music while we are still alive to experience them.
Exactly! Well said.
But labels have often said in the past that they aren't able to secure digital rights mostly, so this is probably a mostly moot point.
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Jun 13, 2014 - 1:33 PM
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John Mullin
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Absolutely. I only buy CDs so I can rip the music to some kind of lossless format, and then I never touch them again. Whenever I can purchase a lossless download of a recent soundtrack, I do that instead of buying the CD. It's all digital so there's no difference, and I don't want the extra clutter in my home.
If La La Land, Intrada, the Varese Club, and the rest could sell me CD quality files, I would probably buy MORE of their releases. Particularly if they were able to save the costs of physically pressing the discs themselves, printing and packaging the artwork, and then storing them someplace and having a staff on hand to fill and ship orders. Assuming that all these lower-to-nonexistent manufacturing costs would allow them to charge a little less and/or do more releases (and perhaps to take risks on more obscure releases which they want to do, but which may not have high prospects for sales), that's a change I would welcome 100%.
The other advantage would be that you could download the music more or less the instant the sellers make it available, which I would think would REDUCE piracy somewhat. If you can go to LaLaLandRecords.com, spend 15 dollars, and have legally acquired files in your possession within minutes, then you really have no excuse to keep using illegal file sharing sites to get this stuff (unless, of course, you're just a greedy, immoral a**hole who doesn't mind taking income away from the people who are putting these things out at great expense in the first place). I might be counting too much on people's good will on that one, but I'm willing to bet that a quick, legal alternative would take a lot of traffic away from several of the file sharing sites.
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For me it wouldn't deter me one bit. What do I do when I buy a cd? Immediately rip it, put it on a shelf and never look at it again.
Some deterants:
no internet connection in the dwelling place
no valid credit card
no bank account (so no payment via personal checking account)
Currently, I remit orders for CDs with money orders via snail mail.
A reloadable pre-paid debit card is another possibility for payment, but then the internet and/or telephone connectivity is needed.
I don't see myself sending money orders for internet downloads...
[also, I don't rip CDs onto computer. CDs may be on the shelf, but I do look at them again!  ]
If one wanted to purchase a download and wanted it bad enough, there are ways.
If one lived in a town without internet, how would they buy a CD anyway, but online?
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I would not....unless it was something truly special...and there could be only one or two things I can think of that would be truly special.
Exactly, in the end its about the music, not the round thing that holds it. I respect CD collecting, but anyone rejecting their "Holy Grail" completely because its not coming from a CD is just silly.
God forbid we actually see the CD market fall in less than 5 years one could always burn the lossless files to a CD and one has exactly that, a CD version of their favorite score.
That being said, I respect the digital concerns, but should anyone be realistically concerned that the soundtrack lables would switch their entire model of business from CD to downloads after all they hard work they've displayed over the years?
The guys at Intrada, LLL, and the rest of the gang are film music's truest crusaders for preserving and presenting this stuff. The years or time, money and passion devoted to soundtrack albums says to me that they would throw in the towels before anyone if the CD market was truly dead.
These folks may be business folks, but they are fans at the core. Knowing that their passion has contributed to the single most profitable genre of music on CD today says to me that they will not abandon CD production as easily as some project.
I trust that we can all relax and take comfort that the soundtrack CD is just fine. I'm more concerned about the lack of funds to spend on a CD with all the abundant availability than a world without them.
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... I would be done collecting scores. I purchased one downloadable song many years ago because that was the only way to get it. That song has since been releases on CD. I dumped the download and replaced it with the CD recording. Between my father's collection and mine, we have plenty of music. If the CD is available, we would still purchase it.
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Jun 13, 2014 - 5:16 PM
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John Mullin
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These folks may be business folks, but they are fans at the core. Knowing that their passion has contributed to the single most profitable genre of music on CD today says to me that they will not abandon CD production as easily as some project.
Respectfully, I just don't think this is true at all. I think it's the legal aspect of doing a limited expanded release that has kept a lot of these companies pressing CDs where they otherwise wouldn't. If that were not in place, I suspect we would have seen more labels experiment with at least making their releases available both ways (hasn't BSX done a few releases like this?). If the playing field were level, and some of these small labels _had_ to choose between going "download only" and closing shop altogether, I suspect many of them would choose to keep going in some form.
I somewhat understand why so many people on this board still want the shiny discs, but for me, I really only see them as a way to get the music at 44.1/16. I honestly have no use for them otherwise. Downloads, however, are more convenient, economical and have the potential to present the music at higher qualities than CDs are capable of. Again, if any of these companies found a way to legally release their music as files, I would happily never pay for another CD again.
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Absolutely and definitely NO !!
Factory made original CDs only.
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