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Was it Intrada? I can't find it on their site and they usually post warnings when a title is getting low or going out of print. Regardless wow, OOP within 12 months?
No, Disney released the CD themselves.
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Jul 16, 2016 - 8:04 PM
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A. A. Ron
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The score is available for download and streaming, which are increasingly the ways people choose to listen to music.
That's quite a bold statement and I don't agree.
It's my sense that film score buffs who download their albums are in the minority. We do it if we have to.
I would venture to say that most of us still prefer a physical format with which we buy our music.
Conversely, those that download as their purchase preference are probably not film score buffs.
Do I have hard data to back this up? Nope. Just a feeling I get from anecdotes on discussion boards such as this one.
But then, you probably have no data to back up your claim either.
People who download albums are the vast majority in the music industry, period. You don't have to like it, that's just the way it is. And guess what? That majority is who Disney is trying to market this toward, NOT "film score buffs." I know that sounds weird, making a score album without considering the whims of the actual score fans, but it's absolutely the way they do business. They make albums more for fans of the film, fans of Disney collectibles and anyone else who might be casually interested in this music. That's the way they approach these projects before ever even giving a thought to "film score buffs." How many of us are there anyway? A few thousand? That's nothing to them.
Another consideration: The average age here and at forums like JWFan, MainTitles and FilmTracks probably skews older. Younger fans are still more casual about the hobby or are quite frankly too busy with their social lives to spend hours on these forums grousing about the release format of their favorite titles. Given a couple decades, I'm sure these forums will be full of people who prefer digital releases, even if our specialty labels are somehow still pressing physical discs by then.
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Jul 17, 2016 - 9:44 AM
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SchiffyM
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I'm sorry you feel that way, Octoberman. It's funny, because I had dinner with my father-in-law last night, and he considers me an anti-free-market lefty who's destroying the country! (He doesn't actually think I'm destroying the country – at least I don't think so – but he thinks I've been brainwashed by anti-corporate liberal propaganda.)
Just to clarify, as a consumer, I'm pro-consumer. But I get the feeling a lot of people who post here feel the studios owe us complete soundtrack releases as some sort of cultural imperative. And that the labels owe us these releases at a price of our choosing. And presented a certain way (mastered to our own tastes, without crossfades or with crossfades, and on and on). And I guess when I see this attitude, which I consider a strange sense of entitlement, my instinct is to defend the people being complained about.
Look, I've worked in the entertainment business for nearly a quarter of a century. (Yeesh!) I've worked for every major studio but one, and have firsthand personal reasons to hate them all. But that doesn't mean that I believe (for instance) that Disney has some strange obligation to keep the score for "Tomorrowland" available on CD forever, regardless of the economics of that. That just doesn't make sense to me.
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Kind of insane that a score from a year ago is now OOP...what is this, 1987? 