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 Posted:   Jan 13, 2023 - 9:21 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


I will commence selling my personal soundtrack CD collection via my blog on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 10AM Pacific. 1,661 items—rare, hard-to-get, one-of-a-kind, priced to SELL!!!

https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/tuesday-january-17-10am

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 13, 2023 - 4:58 PM   
 By:   ILOVESCORES65   (Member)

Lukas,
Will you be selling any FYC Oscar promo soundtracks? If so, I'm there Tuesday.
Peter

 
 Posted:   Jan 13, 2023 - 8:13 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Lukas, after the sale is over and the smoke clears, please leave a list on your blog of what all the titles were. It will be an interesting historical exhibit for our community, long after the fact. No joke.

 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 7:40 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I really don't understand selling off your music collection to fund a movie career. Why trade in one passion for another? The sale will hardly give you enough revenue to make another film. Seems ill advised and something one might regret down the road. Its your life so all the power to you though.

 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 8:00 AM   
 By:   danbeck   (Member)

I’m sure Lukas is keeping the music, lossless and with safe storage backups.

In fact CDs are no guarantee to store your music as I recently discovered in the “rotting cds thread” and checked that my Black Cauldron is now unplayable and some of Body Heat also… unfortunately I had not dowloaded them lossless.
Now I’m downloading new purchases losseless but still need to do a back up.

I imagine it is more a matter of making some bucks and saving space, but not losing the music.

 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I’m sure Lukas is keeping the music, lossless and with safe storage backups.

In fact CDs are no guarantee to store your music as I recently discovered in the “rotting cds thread” and checked that my Black Cauldron is now unplayable and some of Body Heat also… unfortunately I had not dowloaded them lossless.
Now I’m downloading new purchases losseless but still need to do a back up.

I imagine it is more a matter of making some bucks and saving space, but not losing the music.


I hope that's the case! I still value my physical copies even though I back up everything on my computer. I need to check my CD of The Black Cauldron and see if it still plays. Thxs.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 9:07 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

my black cauldron works just fine still.
I do not have single disc rot that I have found

 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 10:21 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


Big emotions as I pack up to sell my film score CD collection!

https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/my-departing-cd-collection

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 14, 2023 - 11:15 AM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 9:16 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


Holy crap, have shipping rates gone up since I last did mail order—what a drag!

https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/shipping-rates

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 10:25 AM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 10:27 AM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Ahh, man, a livestream "Battle Royale" of FSM members competing against each other over stacks and stacks of CD would be awesome to watch!

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 12:41 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Lukas, this is the reason why here in Europe I try to avoid any order from USA (or now UK since Brexit) except if there is no alternative. And the overseas high shipping rates are nothing compared to the customs fees at arrival in EU since it's now zero $ value tolerance.

Edited to keep from quoting the whole post.

Not sure you fully realize what you got yourself into but good luck anyway with everything.

Just be glad he's unlikely to do a Music Box Records - who currently won't fulfil ANY UK orders unless they're extortionate.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 2:47 PM   
 By:   The Shadow   (Member)

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 Posted:   Jan 15, 2023 - 3:48 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Free shipping on all orders solves the problem. wink

 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2023 - 2:27 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Ordering from the UK into the EU is really, really expensive. Not only that, if they send you the wrong disc (which has happened to me), you pay duties & customs TWICE, even if you return the wrong disc.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2023 - 6:03 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

It is strangely emotional for me as well Lukas, I guess the weight of those year, I have been reading FSM way back in the paper magazine days, and occasional emails and comments back and forth. Strange so much time has past, so many scores listened to. I have stacks of FSM in drawers from way back, occasionally I leaf through, and I feel like I am in high school again. Strange

 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2023 - 10:09 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Free shipping on all orders solves the problem. wink

It certainly doesn’t solve the problem of Lukas needing money…which is the primary reason he’s parting with his collection in the first place!

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2023 - 10:58 AM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


Ordering instructions from my CD collection starting Tuesday, 1/17/23 10AM Pacific—with FREE SHIPPING for USA orders over $50!

https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/ordering-info-for-1-17-23-10am

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 16, 2023 - 12:43 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

"I also have a lot of mixed feelings because I’m very happy today with my wife and kids. Life has a lot of fulfillment. In contrast, looking back at my twenties and thirties, I loved my work with FSM—but on a personal level, I was not particularly happy."

"I’m also filled with gratitude that I had the early career that I did (even though in hindsight I wasn’t particularly happy during it): so many interesting experiences and chances to meet great composers and filmmakers I admired."

The mixed emotions expressed within these passages--the writer's candor is admirable and brave considering the targeted reader--brought to mind a recent Joe Namath memoir wherein he mentions that no matter the great moments in his storied career it's the ones that got away that stick to his craw in a very large way and to this very day.

All this is something I relate to. The triumphs in my twenties and thirties coaching and managing in the field of amateur sports that far outweighed the losses still don't diminish the sting of those tough moments. Even decades later. That's why sometimes it seemed the best part of the season was when it was over; you’re too busy making moves, juggling the lineup, putting up with all their crazy teenager moods while it’s going on. You don’t have time to enjoy it. It’s work.

But then when it’s all done and the pain goes away, say a week or two later, you can look back and see what you created. And it’s great, you love it! And you end up wanting to do it again.

Competition is fierce and downright fearsome. No matter the field. But if fortune smiles, decades later you know you're glad you were there and smart enough now to admit that on balance, it was all worth it. wink

 
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