I'm just as disappointed as anyone else that a CD release isn't in the works, but an online petition won't change anything.
I'm certainly aware that there was a petition to get the original Transformers (2007) score out on CD, but in the end I don't recall that it happened because of a petition, but because Warner Bros. Records was working on it anyhow.
Well I happen to like i-tunes and I think its a good way of storing music, I have bought from it on occasions when its something hard to find or deleted (like RCA's Mancini album with 'The White Dawn' suite which I only previously owned on album). I don't know what releasing 'UP' on cd would achive as opposed to the download. Covers and booklets in currant releases usually consist of some stills and recording credits and sometimes if your really lucky, a fold out poster! Its only the likes of FSM,INTRADA etc that seem to take any trouble,love and care with packaging so I for one would be perfectly happy to purchase it on i-tunes and burn myself a copy to play in the car!
Well I happen to like i-tunes and I think its a good way of storing music, I have bought from it on occasions when its something hard to find or deleted (like RCA's Mancini album with 'The White Dawn' suite which I only previously owned on album). I don't know what releasing 'UP' on cd would achive as opposed to the download. Covers and booklets in currant releases usually consist of some stills and recording credits and sometimes if your really lucky, a fold out poster! Its only the likes of FSM,INTRADA etc that seem to take any trouble,love and care with packaging so I for one would be perfectly happy to purchase it on i-tunes and burn myself a copy to play in the car!
You obviously haven't listened to a high end speaker setup, because the differences between playing an MP3 and playing a well recorded CD are vast. But if you do your listening via computer speakers or your car stereo, then it really won't make a difference.
Soundtracks today aren't released merely by market demand, quite the contrary. I'm sure VS and all other labels are aware of the high demand for this score. I don't know, but my guess is a legal snafu or something along those lines which prevent the obvious from happening.
There is no legal snafu that would allow for a release in one media but not another.
That Pixar movies are popular does not mean their scores are.
Do you have any idea how many CDs "Ratatouille" sold? I don't, but Disney does. And I'm sure those numbers, much more than any online petition, are what inspired the apparent "download only" decision.
And sure, one of our specialty labels would have been eager to issue this, but Disney likely didn't want to give that up. More profit in releasing it themselves, even in this format.
If they saw a profit in a CD release, there would be a CD release. An unverifiable promise online to buy a copy of the CD (for a score none of us has heard, by the way) does not speak as loudly as actual hard numbers on sales of similar albums.
PetitionOnline is what people use when they have no personal resolve.
If you want a CD, WRITE. Emails are worthless, online petitions are a joke. WRITE.
I would agree with the online petition comment...I've signed 3 to the Prime Minister's office saying 'give John Barry a Knighthood' and is he a Knight yet?...No!
Mr Brown and co were too busy putting their expenses in to read it I'd imagine!
PetitionOnline is what people use when they have no personal resolve.
If you want a CD, WRITE. Emails are worthless, online petitions are a joke. WRITE.
I would agree with the online petition comment...I've signed 3 to the Prime Minister's office saying 'give John Barry a Knighthood' and is he a Knight yet?...No!
Mr Brown and co were too busy putting their expenses in to read it I'd imagine!
Say, wasn't this Brown chap the one that resigned today?
Well I happen to like i-tunes and I think its a good way of storing music, I have bought from it on occasions when its something hard to find or deleted (like RCA's Mancini album with 'The White Dawn' suite which I only previously owned on album). I don't know what releasing 'UP' on cd would achive as opposed to the download. Covers and booklets in currant releases usually consist of some stills and recording credits and sometimes if your really lucky, a fold out poster! Its only the likes of FSM,INTRADA etc that seem to take any trouble,love and care with packaging so I for one would be perfectly happy to purchase it on i-tunes and burn myself a copy to play in the car!
You obviously haven't listened to a high end speaker setup, because the differences between playing an MP3 and playing a well recorded CD are vast. But if you do your listening via computer speakers or your car stereo, then it really won't make a difference.
I do have some high end speakers (KEF's) and the latest 7.1 sony amp but we mainly use it for television and Blu Ray's. I tend to do most of my soundtrack listening (and reading these posts for that matter) on the train to and from work!
Wait a minute. Hasn't the film even been released yet? And don't soundtrack releases either coincide with the release or follow shortly after?
In other words - when you consider that, for instance, scores for crap films even get soundtracks releases for scores that might not be worth the plastic they're embedded in - can't you have patience and wait? It's a Pixar film that's gaining acclaim with each week - hardly the sort that'll be refused a soundtrack release.
