I'm just scared that, once I start I'd have no self-control to stop!
Collecting Morricone scores and spaghetti western scores has been a large enough undertaking, and I'm not going to take that further.
There was a recent Giallo thread which I was interested in, but when I found some of the top recommendations were already well out-of-print, that put me off bothering.
Similarly when I had a look to see what Peplum was all about. Fortunately those were less appealing to me, so I wasn't so fussed.
So I can understand comments above regarding the market being a bit over-saturated with titles. There's lots of "series" or genres that are just perfect for drawing in the collector mentality, which can become very expensive.
My only complaint at least with the ones I have is that I had a hard time taking the very tight CD's out from the center (spindle?) of the double CD jewel case. I've had the same problem with some DIGITMOVIES double CD case releases as well.
I was talking about the fact that GDM stopped the CD series in 2015, and new releases seem to go the lossy download route only. The Ortolani CD appears to be the last one. If they were simply waiting to release stuff, I wouldn't complain, but lossy downloads are a bit insulting for collectors.
Sorry, I wasn't addressing your comment but Wally Gator's original one.
I'm just scared that, once I start I'd have no self-control .
Italian soundtracks are very addictive.
The market is indeed saturated with tempting soundtracks on both continents but I rather have more than less. Deciding on what to get from the available almost infinite plethora of goodies and finding time to listen to everything and the spending of course... all this can be problematic and requires a lot of self-control, purchasing wise.
I was talking about the fact that GDM stopped the CD series in 2015, and new releases seem to go the lossy download route only. The Ortolani CD appears to be the last one. If they were simply waiting to release stuff, I wouldn't complain, but lossy downloads are a bit insulting for collectors.
Way back in 2015? Sorry I can't remember that far.
Someday they might return. That old Varese CD club did.
I was talking about the fact that GDM stopped the CD series in 2015, and new releases seem to go the lossy download route only. The Ortolani CD appears to be the last one. If they were simply waiting to release stuff, I wouldn't complain, but lossy downloads are a bit insulting for collectors.
Way back in 2015? Sorry I can't remember that far.
Someday they might return. That old Varese CD club did.
Does anyone know what the situation is with regarding the rights that GDM had to issue these scores? From what I've seen, neither Music Box nor Quartet re-released any of the GDM titles on CD.
Does anyone know what the situation is with regarding the rights that GDM had to issue these scores? From what I've seen, neither Music Box nor Quartet re-released any of the GDM titles on CD.
It is not the rights situation which has changed. It is the situation on the soundtrack market which has changed a lot during the last 2-3 years. Therefore it is nowadays no longer commercially rewarding for a profit-oriented label like GDM to produce CDs anymore - apparently not even Morricone re-releases. That´s the reason. Now and then they still release Morricone on vinyl, but mainly they license scores from their catalogue to other labels - even vinyl labels - or now even concentrate on digital downloads with titles from the old RCA catalogue as you can read here: http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=12&threadID=85825&archive=0
