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With rights and availability and different labels and the complex spaghetti that is CD releasing, not to mention the varying lengths of scores, i would imagine that its quite difficult to find two halves of a dollar bill that match? Even more impossible if you are hamstrung by it being the same composer?
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I hate when labels do that!
Fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.
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Or buy two copies - that also calms the OCD librarians, right? 
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Nov 18, 2016 - 8:02 PM
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OnyaBirri
(Member)
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Dear customers,
For their next albums, featuring rare and previously unreleased tracks, Coldplay and the Chemical Brothers will release their respective albums together on a single CD, as a sort of "2 album on 1 CD" bargain-promo.
Back catalog film music releases do not sell as many copies as contemporary pop music albums.
A CD release of a 26-minute album of an obscure film score would have a limited audience.
When combining short albums on a single CD, licensing agreements may limit a record label's choices of what can legally be paired.
Sometimes the pairing of two film scores by two different composers may offer more stylistic consistency than two scores by the same composer, depending on the style of the music, the era, the content of the films, and the aesthetic of the studio.
You have every right to not like these kind of pairings, but they make economic sense; and comparing them to contemporary pop releases is constructing a false analogy.
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I'm at a loss how your inability to decide how you should organize your collection means that the label is compromising on artistic choices to combine them.
Well put, Sirus.
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would take a two score 1 CD anytime of Sugarland Express and The Secret Ways (I know they were never released on LPs
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This is indeed no big issue for me either. I archive the 'combo' disc by my favourite composer (i.e. the reason I bought it in the first place). In my iTunes, it's even less of a problem, because they can be organized separately.
The important thing is getting the music out there in the first place.
That's exactly where I stand on this issue.
Also, I found it neat to discover scores I never had on my radar and probably would not have bought otherwise (like Shire's RAID ON ENTEBBE) by having it on the same CD as a score that I wanted (Goldsmith's MORITURI). Why should I find this better to have these two soundtracks on two separate CDs (and pay for each of them)?
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Bespin just joined this board and he is this close to being put on my "ignore list"
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You can consult my John Williams
Nah, I think i'll wait on that
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