Hans Zimmer is simple amazing. Just for the record, I was the hugest fan of movie soundtracks at age 14. They usually show a hell of a lot more thought, insight, and creativity that most of the crap we hear on the radio.
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Hans Zimmer is simple amazing. Just for the record, I was the hugest fan of movie soundtracks at age 14. They usually show a hell of a lot more thought, insight, and creativity that most of the crap we hear on the radio.
I know people think this is going to be an interesting piracy experiment, but think about it - this is only happening in the US. In Canada, and anywhere else in the world, we'll be able to go to our local record store and buy a copy of the soundtrack on CD. It'll get on Kazaa within hours of it going on sale.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the annoucement was that it was only going to be released in the iTMS and not in CD format, period...
Re: Re: Not the best album to try this out on
two smart lads copyrighted, or whatever the legal term is, a whole load of phrases and names which they thought would be valuable to companies in the future. One such phrase was 21st century Fox. Apparently the execs at Fox were spitting nails for being caught out, and I think there was a decision just to not pay the bright boys a single cent out of spite. Thats the story I recall anyway.
As for the thread, iTMS is going to rock with a wide variety of media. Its not my scene cause Im ignorant, but I know quite a few people into movie soundtracks.
I am pretty sure that when iTMS goes to Windows, we are going to see a nifty deal between Apple and Amazon. A license deal to mirror iTMS on the mega high profile Amazon, or something similar. The run up to Xmas is the testing ground to prove to the music industry that the technology works, and the sales from an incredibly limited market ie US Mac users with iTunes4 are, I reckon, a bonus.
The resistance by quite a few to iTMS lack of a physical CD is I think just a part of the transition. We move on, and if an idea works it is embraced by the masses. Sure there are people who say vinyl is still the best medium for music, but CDs have ruled, and again its time to move along. And the audiophiles with supertuned ears who mock MP3 quality are also a minority. I havent got a single WAV file in my Powerbook, and when I play a crappy MP3 tune through my sonica card, not one single person, hi-fi freak or ordinary Joe has said anything apart from f*** that sounds amazing.
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two smart lads copyrighted, or whatever the legal term is, a whole load of phrases and names which they thought would be valuable to companies in the future. One such phrase was 21st century Fox. Apparently the execs at Fox were spitting nails for being caught out, and I think there was a decision just to not pay the bright boys a single cent out of spite. Thats the story I recall anyway.
As for the thread, iTMS is going to rock with a wide variety of media. Its not my scene cause Im ignorant, but I know quite a few people into movie soundtracks.
I am pretty sure that when iTMS goes to Windows, we are going to see a nifty deal between Apple and Amazon. A license deal to mirror iTMS on the mega high profile Amazon, or something similar. The run up to Xmas is the testing ground to prove to the music industry that the technology works, and the sales from an incredibly limited market ie US Mac users with iTunes4 are, I reckon, a bonus.
The resistance by quite a few to iTMS lack of a physical CD is I think just a part of the transition. We move on, and if an idea works it is embraced by the masses. Sure there are people who say vinyl is still the best medium for music, but CDs have ruled, and again its time to move along. And the audiophiles with supertuned ears who mock MP3 quality are also a minority. I havent got a single WAV file in my Powerbook, and when I play a crappy MP3 tune through my sonica card, not one single person, hi-fi freak or ordinary Joe has said anything apart from f*** that sounds amazing.
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Reminds me of the move by Apple to eliminate floppy drives from their system. A chorus of shouts at first, then whimpers, then an acknowledgement that it made sense. Those who really needed a floppy drive for compatibility or just for comfort could pay extra and have one. As mainstream music delivery moves online, those who want hardcopy CDs will simply pay extra for them.
Digital > digital > digital. Same, same, same. No change. Yes, compressed, decompressed, recompressed, but very little loss. Fuhgeddaboudit.
Originally posted by Abstract
How many sales of this album soundtrack will be considered a success? Its stupid to sell a soundtrack exclusively on iTMS right now because only 3% of the market actually owns a Mac. How much of this market will bother paying $9.99 to download it? It will end up with very very low sales numbers. Heck, iTMS is only available in America. They just cut out almost all of their market. It would be like selling this soundtrack only to Armenians or something. No offense, but there aren't too many Armenians.Its just silly.
Here is a quote directly from the Maccentral article:
"Apple is selling the album for US$9.99 as an online download at the iTunes Music Store. That's not unusual. What is, however, is the fact that no physical CDs are being made for the U.S. market."
And here is a quote from the message boards at Maccentral:
"For those unable (or unwilling, as some are) to get the music through the iTMS, there *will* be a CD release from the Varèse Sarabande label, but it will be available only through their website, not sold at retail stores or at online CD vendor sites. The CD will also be sold at retail outside the US, of course."
http://www.varesesarabande.com/upcoming.asp
I think Hans Zimmer is great too, I would also like to see The Ring soundtrack released, it would be great at the iTMS.