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Damn, I'm bit worry.
I can't buy CDs myself, using intermediary-service. This means that I can get actual CD in 1-1,5 months or so.
And I doubt that they will agree to do refund/replacement after so much time. 
So - should I wait month or so, when they'll solve problem? Or what? I don't want another Lionheart situation - CD is in-print, wait, CD is sold out, wait, it's in-print again...
Hard to say what is the best for you, but depending on where you are, they would still have to replace the CD 2 months later if it is a manufacturing defect. Of course, that's not much consolidation if the CD has by then sold out.
Well, as I said further up, while I like the score, I think the original Varèse Sarabande album was a very good representation of the score already, so I was already on the fence of getting this. Now I will wait and see how all of this plays out first.
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Has anyone actually received working copies (meaning how many defective copies there are? All of them or just some)? Since it will cost a fortune in additional fees to receive anything from outside Fucking EU, I am not that eager to accept the package and MASSIVE additional charges for defective discs, which I would be then forced to pay again for PERHAPS replacement correct copy...
Yes, I would hold off on such orders until everything is cleared. If you get a bad copy, could well be that you would have to pay all the import and customs fees AGAIN when they send you a replacement copy.
Has happened to me with Faltermeyer's RUNNING MAN, which all things considered cost me somewhere around a whopping $70.- for a single CD. I'd have never bought the disc for $70.- from a retail store. 
That's why for some releases, I go with digital downloads (provided they are lossless/high-res, I have no lossy music in my main collection).
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For what it’s worth, I don’t have my physical copy yet but my three Goldsmith Odyssey colleagues all received theirs: the manufacturing defect is visually present on all of their copies, but the discs have successfully played and ripped, which is why a Spotlight episode will finally be recorded tomorrow evening.
And JB Fan, I could be wrong of course but I think you’re safe enough to wait on this one until the manufacturing issues have been resolved. While City Hall is an *excellent* score… it’s no Lionheart. I think they unfortunately underestimated demand for Lionheart, but 2000 copies of City Hall will take much longer to sell out and seems just about right in this climate of decreasing CD sales.
I just realized that Malice was also produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. I wonder if that’ll be the next Varese Goldsmith expansion after this one.
Yavar
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For what it’s worth, I don’t have my physical copy yet but my three Goldsmith Odyssey colleagues all received theirs: the manufacturing defect is visually present on all of their copies, but the discs have successfully played and ripped...
Glad you noted that, as I'd forgotten that on my initial rip, track one had the sound. It didn't when I ripped again, and I assumed it was some glitch in my process, but given the stories that followed, here, it's possible that this not only manifests differently from disc to disc, but from playing to ripping, from device to device, and maybe even from time to time (in my case, anyway).
Which still counts as a manufacturing error. A CD should just play, not play occasionally and depending on the player you use.
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Right -- when you initially ripped to WAV, David, one track had a glitch on it if I recall correctly, and when you re-ripped later to FLAC that issue was no longer present. Correct? Did you use the same program to rip both times? Maybe (hopefully) what worked better for you will work better for others.
I hope Varese is able to get the pressing plant to redo this run.
Yavar
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Played it on 3 players. Sounds fine to me
MV
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Right -- when you initially ripped to WAV, David, one track had a glitch on it if I recall correctly, and when you re-ripped later to FLAC that issue was no longer present. Correct? Did you use the same program to rip both times?
I did. I used Itunes both times, ripping to WAV each time. I always convert to flac later, so it was the same computer program, same CD device, and same disc.
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...Even if yours is fine, it might not be later.
I think that's right, given that mine went both ways, bad the first time, good the second. "Iffy" isn't what we pay for.
Thanks for the good, helpful photo, Chris.
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