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Indeed. This prompted me to check both releases, and Mouse Hunt still doesn’t have sound samples up.
Yavar
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I received mine unexpectedly, and indeed it seemed a less than ideal way to package a replacement CD.
My worst experience ever like that was when I won a couple of score CDs in eBay auctions from the same seller, but in different sales. They didn't tell me they were sending them in the same package, or that the extremely expensive and rare one would be between two thin pieces of white cardboard, so when I took out the first CD I actually threw out the rest of the packaging, assuming the second CD was arriving separately.
When I learned that they were in fact in the same package, I hurried home from the office, checked the dumpster at my building, and found the box with the rare CD still inside, mercifully intact.
Talk about a close call.(First world problems, I know).
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Well my replacement came broken because Varese is sending out the packages in flimsy packaging with no protection and just the CD itself in one of those cheap CD covers. No case, nothing.
What a joke of a company.
Ouch! Now you need a replacement for the replacement. And it takes forever until you can actually listen to the music.
And if you order internationally, could happen that you have to pay customs/import tax again for the replacement, even though you already paid it for the wrong/defective disc (has happened to me). In your case that could amount to paying import fees for the first disc, the replacement disc, and the replacement replacement disc. And it's 6€ processing fee on top, so this would be a minimum of 18€ just for processing fees for a single disc, on top of import tax and/or custom fees (which may be added depending on declared value).
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What?? On international shipments Varese is marking it as a product with value on every shipment, *including* the replacement discs?? That’s certainly bizarre and frustrating. They should be marking the replacement disc for faulty product as $0 value, or better yet, a “gift”. It’s not as if they are sending people who ordered just City Hall $40 worth of product!
Yavar
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What?? On international shipments Varese is marking it as a product with value on every shipment, *including* the replacement discs?? That’s certainly bizarre and frustrating. They should be marking the replacement disc for faulty product as $0 value, or better yet, a “gift”. It’s not as if they are sending people who ordered just City Hall $40 worth of product!
Yavar
That was the International Varèse Sarabande store, and the problem came after Brexit. I don't think I ever had to get a replacement disc from the US Varèse Sarabande store.
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Still have not ordered this because of the SNAFU. This may be a good candidate for digital download. Is there anything earth-shattering in the notes that demands a physical release?
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Maybe not "earth shattering", but the liner notes are EXCELLENT because they're by the always-reliable Tim Greiving. He always does thorough research and usually interviews people who worked on a project to get unique insights you don't find anywhere else. In this case in addition to quotes from other involved parties, Tim newly interviewed Kenneth Lipper, an old friend of Al Pacino's who wrote the screenplay and was the driving force behind the film. There are a lot of interesting revelations about how his original ideas were modified by later re-writers to make the film more "Hollywood" (Lipper was an outsider to the industry), resulting in the somewhat compromised final product. Lipper also has some interesting comments about Goldsmith's music, and Tim brings a lot of his own insight into discussing the score. There's no comprehensive track-by-track notes or anything (that's becoming more rare these days in general, alas), but he does single out some key cues for analysis.
I for one can't understand when record labels don't provide a liner notes PDF along with digital downloads of their albums. WHY? It's something only a few labels do, and I feel it should be standard procedure.
In any case, it doesn't look like a digital release of this expansion is necessarily happening, for whatever reason (probably the fine print of Varese's original perpetuity rights agreement didn't include digital downloads -- like why their DE of Silvestri's Death Becomes Her was only released physically, while their simultaneous expansion of Silvestri's Tomb Raider 2 score came out for download purchase as well as streaming on Spotify, etc. around the same time as the CD release). The fine print reveals this new City Hall DE was licensed from the WB-owned Castle Rock, just like Varese's Deluxe Edition of L.A. Confidential last year... and *that* one got a simultaneous release on digital download sites and Spotify, etc. for streaming. So it seems like rights agreements can differ even with the same licensor.
Yavar
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