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May 24, 2016 - 8:21 AM
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(MV, consider this a love letter to your recent expansion of virtual releases.)
I just bought Goldsmith's expanded The Ghost and the Darkness.
You all know the drill. One of, if not, the best of in what's Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties. It's got strong themes, a stark, dark atmosphere and depth. All that and a rich orchestral an ethnic color. A Goldsmith as it should be.
I never got around to buy Intrada's expanded album. I mean, I liked the original release, but it never was on top of my playlist. Not even when I was in a Goldsmith mood. I can't say why. But still, I knew I would have to get the expansion one day. Goldsmith is one of these composers where a lot of times an expanded score gives the music the necessary room to breath. In a way that the music comes alive in a whole new way. Themes develop, atmosphere builds. And sometimes I had a hard time agreeing with Goldsmith own picks for a soundtrack album. So I knew The Ghost and the Darkness could harbor a treasure or two.
But still I haven't gotten around to buying it. It went in and out my shopping basket, always being bumped for something with more priority.
You can only spend a dollar once -- and even that costs me 90 eurocents. But with La-la's new steps in the virtual music market, something has changed -- for the better.
Getting the awesome music of The Ghost and the Darkness (NP) I had to fork over € 10,99. *Just* ten euro and ninety-nine cents. For 16-bit FLAC. At the *exact* same audio quality a cd would have got me.
Getting the score from Intrada would have const me $ 29,99, that's almost twenty-seven in euro's. Shipping it would have required € 12,15 extra. Or, to balance the costs, I would have bought five titles in total -- not more than five to avoid taxes -- the extra cost would be $ 4,30 per cd. The cost total would be a wee bit more than € 31,10.
Today I spend € 10,99 to get a score that I wanted.
So I saved 20 to 30 euro's. I miss out on something tangible, a booklet and, of course, liner notes. But those aren't worth the price of three extra score albums. Or two movie tickets. Or a quick meal and a beer. Or two. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing the cd and the jewel case, the packaging and the poisonous fumes these cargo ships are polluting our skies with that I did't contribute to.
I any case, I know there are reservations regarding virtual releases. Your bold move in virtual releasing more scores through the deal with Paramount saves me money, saves the planet *and* makes it far more easy to dive into score I might have missed out on.
Kudos for that. And many thanks.
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Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties.
Uh-oh...
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May 24, 2016 - 11:30 AM
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Mr. Popular
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(MV, consider this a love letter to your recent expansion of virtual releases.)
I just bought Goldsmith's expanded The Ghost and the Darkness.
You all know the drill. One of, if not the best, in what's Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties. It's got strong themes, a stark, dark atmosphere and depth. All that and a rich orchestral an ethnic color. A Goldsmith as it should be.
I never got around to buy Intrada's expanded album. I mean, I liked the original release, but it never was on top of my playlist. Not even when I was in a Goldsmith mood. I can't say why. But still, I knew I would have to get the expansion one day. Goldsmith is one of these composers where a lot of times an expanded score gives the music the necessary room to breath. In a way that the music comes alive in a whole new way. Themes develop, atmosphere builds. And sometimes I had a hard time agreeing with Goldsmith own picks for a soundtrack album. So I knew The Ghost and the Darkness could harbor a treasure or two.
But still I haven't gotten around to buying it. It went in and out my shopping basket, always being bumped for something with more priority.
You can only spend a dollar once -- and even that costs me 90 eurocents. But with La-la's new steps in the virtual music market, something has changed -- for the better.
Getting the awesome music of The Ghost and the Darkness (NP) I had to fork over € 10,99. *Just* ten euro and ninety-nine cents. For 16-bit FLAC. At the *exact* same audio quality a cd would have got me.
Getting the score from Intrada would have const me $ 29,99, that's almost twenty-seven in euro's. Shipping it would have required € 12,15 extra. Or, to balance the costs, I would have bought five titles in total -- not more than five to avoid taxes -- the extra cost would be $ 4,30 per cd. The cost total would be a wee bit more than € 31,10.
Today I spend € 10,99 to get a score that I wanted.
So I saved 20 to 30 euro's. I miss out on something tangible, a booklet and, of course, liner notes. But those aren't worth the price of three extra score albums. Or two movie tickets. Or a quick meal and a beer. Or two. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing the cd and the jewel case, the packaging and the poisonous fumes these cargo ships are polluting our skies with that I did't contribute to.
I any case, I know there are reservations regarding virtual releases. Your bold move in virtual releasing more scores through the deal with Paramount saves me money, saves the planet *and* makes it far more easy to dive into score I might have missed out on.
Kudos for that. And many thanks.
Hey MV, see if you can get these up on Pono as 16/44, lossless downloads. I'll buy many of them. Pono has all major label releases up as lossless as well as most indie labels.
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May 24, 2016 - 11:35 AM
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Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties.
Uh-oh...
Tedious -- not to mention just downright mediocre -- is what I'd call the movie, The Ghost and the Darkness, itself, and I think the original screenwriter, were he still alive, would agree.
As for Goldsmith's score, which I've never collected on CD, a CD with a jewel case and a nice booklet of good liner notes being what I prefer to purchase, simply because I don't like the movie, is not the greatest Goldsmith ever did, but served the movie well.
I watched the movie again a few months ago streaming in HD on Amazon Prime. I hadn't seen the thing since its original release and was curious if I'd think any better of it. I didn't.
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(MV, consider this a love letter to your recent expansion of virtual releases.)
I just bought Goldsmith's expanded The Ghost and the Darkness.
You all know the drill. One of, if not the best, in what's Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties. It's got strong themes, a stark, dark atmosphere and depth. All that and a rich orchestral an ethnic color. A Goldsmith as it should be.
I never got around to buy Intrada's expanded album. I mean, I liked the original release, but it never was on top of my playlist. Not even when I was in a Goldsmith mood. I can't say why. But still, I knew I would have to get the expansion one day. Goldsmith is one of these composers where a lot of times an expanded score gives the music the necessary room to breath. In a way that the music comes alive in a whole new way. Themes develop, atmosphere builds. And sometimes I had a hard time agreeing with Goldsmith own picks for a soundtrack album. So I knew The Ghost and the Darkness could harbor a treasure or two.
But still I haven't gotten around to buying it. It went in and out my shopping basket, always being bumped for something with more priority.
You can only spend a dollar once -- and even that costs me 90 eurocents. But with La-la's new steps in the virtual music market, something has changed -- for the better.
Getting the awesome music of The Ghost and the Darkness (NP) I had to fork over € 10,99. *Just* ten euro and ninety-nine cents. For 16-bit FLAC. At the *exact* same audio quality a cd would have got me.
Getting the score from Intrada would have const me $ 29,99, that's almost twenty-seven in euro's. Shipping it would have required € 12,15 extra. Or, to balance the costs, I would have bought five titles in total -- not more than five to avoid taxes -- the extra cost would be $ 4,30 per cd. The cost total would be a wee bit more than € 31,10.
Today I spend € 10,99 to get a score that I wanted.
So I saved 20 to 30 euro's. I miss out on something tangible, a booklet and, of course, liner notes. But those aren't worth the price of three extra score albums. Or two movie tickets. Or a quick meal and a beer. Or two. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing the cd and the jewel case, the packaging and the poisonous fumes these cargo ships are polluting our skies with that I did't contribute to.
I any case, I know there are reservations regarding virtual releases. Your bold move in virtual releasing more scores through the deal with Paramount saves me money, saves the planet *and* makes it far more easy to dive into score I might have missed out on.
Kudos for that. And many thanks.
Hey MV, see if you can get these up on Pono as 16/44, lossless downloads. I'll buy many of them. Pono has all major label releases up as lossless as well as most indie labels.
Just buy the cd from Intrada
MV
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May 24, 2016 - 11:48 PM
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Mr. Popular
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(MV, consider this a love letter to your recent expansion of virtual releases.)
I just bought Goldsmith's expanded The Ghost and the Darkness.
You all know the drill. One of, if not the best, in what's Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties. It's got strong themes, a stark, dark atmosphere and depth. All that and a rich orchestral an ethnic color. A Goldsmith as it should be.
I never got around to buy Intrada's expanded album. I mean, I liked the original release, but it never was on top of my playlist. Not even when I was in a Goldsmith mood. I can't say why. But still, I knew I would have to get the expansion one day. Goldsmith is one of these composers where a lot of times an expanded score gives the music the necessary room to breath. In a way that the music comes alive in a whole new way. Themes develop, atmosphere builds. And sometimes I had a hard time agreeing with Goldsmith own picks for a soundtrack album. So I knew The Ghost and the Darkness could harbor a treasure or two.
But still I haven't gotten around to buying it. It went in and out my shopping basket, always being bumped for something with more priority.
You can only spend a dollar once -- and even that costs me 90 eurocents. But with La-la's new steps in the virtual music market, something has changed -- for the better.
Getting the awesome music of The Ghost and the Darkness (NP) I had to fork over € 10,99. *Just* ten euro and ninety-nine cents. For 16-bit FLAC. At the *exact* same audio quality a cd would have got me.
Getting the score from Intrada would have const me $ 29,99, that's almost twenty-seven in euro's. Shipping it would have required € 12,15 extra. Or, to balance the costs, I would have bought five titles in total -- not more than five to avoid taxes -- the extra cost would be $ 4,30 per cd. The cost total would be a wee bit more than € 31,10.
Today I spend € 10,99 to get a score that I wanted.
So I saved 20 to 30 euro's. I miss out on something tangible, a booklet and, of course, liner notes. But those aren't worth the price of three extra score albums. Or two movie tickets. Or a quick meal and a beer. Or two. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing the cd and the jewel case, the packaging and the poisonous fumes these cargo ships are polluting our skies with that I did't contribute to.
I any case, I know there are reservations regarding virtual releases. Your bold move in virtual releasing more scores through the deal with Paramount saves me money, saves the planet *and* makes it far more easy to dive into score I might have missed out on.
Kudos for that. And many thanks.
Hey MV, see if you can get these up on Pono as 16/44, lossless downloads. I'll buy many of them. Pono has all major label releases up as lossless as well as most indie labels.
Just buy the cd from Intrada
MV
These means all the Paramount titles, MV. Sheesh. Also, I am in a thread asking for DIGITAL 16/44. If I wanted a CD, I'd be in a CD thread. If it's not that important to release these on a site that Tunecore and many other aggregators service, your call and I respect that. I just won't buy Itunes downloads and many labels will make sure all services get these releases to sell. Options are good. But hey...good work on getting that deal.
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(MV, consider this a love letter to your recent expansion of virtual releases.)
I just bought Goldsmith's expanded The Ghost and the Darkness.
You all know the drill. One of, if not the best, in what's Goldsmith's otherwise somewhat tedious output in the nineties. It's got strong themes, a stark, dark atmosphere and depth. All that and a rich orchestral an ethnic color. A Goldsmith as it should be.
I never got around to buy Intrada's expanded album. I mean, I liked the original release, but it never was on top of my playlist. Not even when I was in a Goldsmith mood. I can't say why. But still, I knew I would have to get the expansion one day. Goldsmith is one of these composers where a lot of times an expanded score gives the music the necessary room to breath. In a way that the music comes alive in a whole new way. Themes develop, atmosphere builds. And sometimes I had a hard time agreeing with Goldsmith own picks for a soundtrack album. So I knew The Ghost and the Darkness could harbor a treasure or two.
But still I haven't gotten around to buying it. It went in and out my shopping basket, always being bumped for something with more priority.
You can only spend a dollar once -- and even that costs me 90 eurocents. But with La-la's new steps in the virtual music market, something has changed -- for the better.
Getting the awesome music of The Ghost and the Darkness (NP) I had to fork over € 10,99. *Just* ten euro and ninety-nine cents. For 16-bit FLAC. At the *exact* same audio quality a cd would have got me.
Getting the score from Intrada would have const me $ 29,99, that's almost twenty-seven in euro's. Shipping it would have required € 12,15 extra. Or, to balance the costs, I would have bought five titles in total -- not more than five to avoid taxes -- the extra cost would be $ 4,30 per cd. The cost total would be a wee bit more than € 31,10.
Today I spend € 10,99 to get a score that I wanted.
So I saved 20 to 30 euro's. I miss out on something tangible, a booklet and, of course, liner notes. But those aren't worth the price of three extra score albums. Or two movie tickets. Or a quick meal and a beer. Or two. Not to mention the environmental impact of producing the cd and the jewel case, the packaging and the poisonous fumes these cargo ships are polluting our skies with that I did't contribute to.
I any case, I know there are reservations regarding virtual releases. Your bold move in virtual releasing more scores through the deal with Paramount saves me money, saves the planet *and* makes it far more easy to dive into score I might have missed out on.
Kudos for that. And many thanks.
Hey MV, see if you can get these up on Pono as 16/44, lossless downloads. I'll buy many of them. Pono has all major label releases up as lossless as well as most indie labels.
Just buy the cd from Intrada
MV
These means all the Paramount titles, MV. Sheesh. Also, I am in a thread asking for DIGITAL 16/44. If I wanted a CD, I'd be in a CD thread. If it's not that important to release these on a site that Tunecore and many other aggregators service, your call and I respect that. I just won't buy Itunes downloads and many labels will make sure all services get these releases to sell. Options are good. But hey...good work on getting that deal.
My point is that it's silly to talk about purchasing a hi res download when you can simply buy the cd (the best sound quality you are going to get for your buck) and get a fantastic booklet for just about the same price.
And no, we have no immediate plans to offer hi res downloads through specialty sites. Its not worth the cost. As stated before -- if you want that buy the cd, copy it and then resell it.
MV
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