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Mine was Killer Klowns From Outer Space from Percepto Records....after that it was Varese's Karate Kid boxset and FSM's Superman Blue Box....I was super excited for each of these. But going back further...I think getting the score to Empire of the Sun, Men In Black, Independence Day, Superman The Movie (the original album) and others rank in the top of my memory.
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My favorite memory was finding one last copy of the expanded Krull on SAE for $50+ and frantically typing in my information to purchase it before anybody else could. Then I realized later that I had purchased the Super Tracks version instead of the La-La Land copy which has the Krull "Theme" that I was originally trying to get. So of course then I had to shell out $70+ for the La-La land Version on Amazon. I don't know why that's my favorite memory, but it is. And come to think of it, I enjoy having both copies; for no good reason whatsoever; it's sheer redundancy now that I have the La-La Land.
Although... my "all-time" favorite soundtrack purchase memory hasn't actually happened yet. Still waiting on an expanded and remastered soundtrack to a movie about Nellwyns to be released!
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Wow, just like this guy 
Four months ago, scouring through the soundtrack section of my local record store. Two hours later, about to leave, and buried underneath a pile of stuff, I found a sealed Goldsmith "Psycho II" on CD! I love those original, old-school, long cardboard box CD packaging.
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I found THUNDERBALL on vinyl last year at a second-hand shop. I think it was $1.99, perfect condition.
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My best moment starts a little closer to now because I was born in 1990 and didn't start buying soundtracks till 2005.
I will say, long before that, I remember watching Moonraker as a seven year old and that free fall music, that version of the James Bond theme had me mesmerized...I kept humming it, every time I played cops and robbers, I sang it. I watch certain parts of Bond movies just to listen to the scores.
So, time went on, and I'd download various versions of the Bond theme, and parts of the scores, and then one day in 2005 while browsing a Barnes N' Nobles...I saw a galore of James Bond soundtracks. Thunderball, A View to a Kill, Octopussy, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, you name it they had it. At the time I hadn't realized they were all actually Lukas Kendall's remasters, (I didn't even know who he was yet) and I jumped for joy, but I didn't have the means to buy all of them at once.
So each week I saved up all of my lunch money, never spending a dime on food, and by weeks end, I'd have enough for a Bond soundtrack, and I'd drive to Barnes N' Noble and buy one or two Bond soundtracks, depending on how much cash I had...And after a few months, I had every single Lukas Kendall Remaster. I even managed to pick up Die Another Day, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough.
That is how I started my way into soundtrack collecting.
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Jan 25, 2014 - 4:22 PM
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bdm
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I have fond memories of finding the vinyl release (yes, I go that far back) of scores in the high school days, specifically THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY by Goldsmith, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA by Phillips.
In the cd era, the big release was the STAR WARS box set; I saw the add in some magazine and went into a small, independent record store (now defunct thanks to the internet), as they would special order items for me, and sell them at a marginal mark up. The anticipation of more music from the saga, especially an almost complete JEDI, was draining. The day I got the call that the set had come in saw me book off all other responsibilities and head down immediately. The first cue I played was "Final Duel" - glorious! Played that box set non-stop. Made a cassette copy for a friend of mine in Toronto, and we actually got a ticket from the cops as he blasted the music on the street corner (we were so engrossed that we missed the officer flash his lights in an effort to get us to move [a no stopping zone at that time apparently]).
The next event was the STAR TREK TOS box set - spent the extra cash to have express delivery, and when that package arrived I curled up in the basement and played away....
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Jan 26, 2014 - 11:34 AM
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dan the man
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Going to a house sale where I found loads of LP soundtracks and this old man had no knowledge of the value of them, he had them in a $1,00 box, [some of them were-55 days to Peking, the Vikings, Marco the magnificent, Nine days to Rama,Mondo cane no 2, Africa addio, etc etc, 60's type.I am a nice guy, I told him I will take them all, but not at $1.00, he looked at me thinking I wanted them even cheaper, I pull out a couple hundred dollar bills and told them these are worth something. He felt good, I felt good. That's how to do business and it reminded me of an episode of Pawn stars where the guys did the same thing, giving the customer more because he knew it was worth more then the naïve customer thought. Fair is fair.
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Jan 27, 2014 - 1:38 AM
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Tobias
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Going to a house sale where I found loads of LP soundtracks and this old man had no knowledge of the value of them, he had them in a $1,00 box, [some of theme were-55 days to Peking, the Vikings, Marco the magnificent, Nine days to Rama,Mondo cane no 2, Africa addio, etc etc, 60's type.I am a nice guy, I told him I will take them all, but not at $1.00, he looked at me thinking I wanted them even cheaper, I pull out a couple hundred dollar bills and told them these are worth something. He felt good, I felt good. That's how to do business and it reminded me of an episode of Pawn stars where the guys did the same thing, giving the customer more because he knew it was worth more then the naïve customer thought. Fair is fair.
This reminds me of those times I bought LP soundtracks at a second hand CD store and several of those where soundtracks that either was not yet released on CD or released on limited edition CD`s and already sold out. So because of that I decided to buy them. The thing is a few weeks after those purchases I find out that this or that label is releasing/re-releasing them on CD.
When I bought them I felt that I did some good purchases but when finding out later on that they getting a CD release/re-release made me go bananas. Last time it happened was last year when I bought Kamen`s Suspect (knowing that the CD was pretty expansive) and just a few weeks after that Varese did their CD Club release that included Suspect.
So up until those CD releases/re-releases I thought that it was some of my best purchases.
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For me...
Getting the LP of the FANTASY WORLDS OF BERNARD HERRMANN back in the 70's
Picking up SPACE:1999 by pure chance in 1975
and getting LOGAN'S RUN at the same time...
That rocked my world.
Ford A. Thaxton
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It starts for me in the mid 60s, when I was around six or seven years old, with my first collection of around ten singles given to me by my uncle for my new Chad Valley Close and Play record player. Along with Adam Faith's Poor Me, and twangy guitar band The Moontrekkers' Night of the Vampire, was The 'Ooter Song (!) by Carry On films star Sidney James. More significantly though were the first commercial release of the original Delia Derbyshire/BBC Radiophonic Workshop recording of the Doctor Who theme on the Decca label, and the theme from the tv series Out of this World, by Tony Hatch.
1973 was my earliest soundtrack purchasing year in earnest. I got my dada to buy me Rosza's Golden Voyage of Sinbad, whilst on a day trip to Blackpool. Then the tv soundtrack album for Kung Fu, and the 70s release of that same Doctor Who theme in stereo and now on the BBC Records label in the same shop in Rotherham on a Saturdy afternoon.
Not long after they re-released the 7th Voyage to cash in on the success of the Golden Voyage, and with it came Herrmann's soundtrack with it's best ever cover. At the same time I too got into those Phase 4 recordings starting with The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann. I ordered 7th Voyage at Can the Music Man record store in Sheffield as it was so newly released they hadn't got it in stock. In the same store I noticed the Phase 4s and the Charles Gerhardt RCA albums. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The final part of these beginnings, still within the 70s is when I saw what became my first mail order purchases in British monthly film magazine Photoplay, Morricone's Five Man Army and Once Upon A Time in the West from Soundtrack and General.
Fond memories all.
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