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'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive 161

Posted by timothy from the five-parsadigm dept.
Isbiten writes "Apple has just gotten the rights to the soundtrack of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There will be no physical CD and it will only be available from the iTunes Music Store. Cnet has the story."
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  • wow (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:33PM (#6386701)
    This is about as exciting as having dibs on the digitally remastered soundtrack to Highlander II.
    • I think the news here isn't the quality of the track... it's the advertising for Apple.

      So at the end of the film - if anyone's still there - there'll be, on the screen, "Soundtrack available exclusively through the Apple Music Store".

      Clever marketing. I'm guessing Apple paid a ton for this, especially to make up for the lost sales...

      • Re:wow (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Greedo ( 304385 )
        I can't wait to log on to the Apple Music store and download my copy of ...

        Oh wait.

        I don't live in the States.

        I guess I'm SOL.

        • If you don't live in the States, you'll be able to buy a physical CD through all the usual channels. The "iTunes Music Store exclusive" is only in the US, and even here there'll still be a physical CD for people unable or unwilling to use the iTMS; the difference is really that it just won't be sold at retail. The only way to get the CD in the US will be to order it directly from the label, Varèse Sarabande [varesesarabande.com], at their site (it's not there yet, though, although the soundtrack's been on the iTMS since Jul

      • Re:wow (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Blondie-Wan ( 559212 ) on Tuesday July 08, 2003 @11:44AM (#6392094) Homepage
        From what I've heard, I think it was actually Fox Music that got the ball rolling on this, not Apple. Fox wanted to do this as an experiment to test the viability of the strategy; that's why it's a niche-appeal album, an orchestral film score, instead of a mass-appeal thing like some pop release - they're not risking "losing" huge sales anyway, so they stand to gain more with the market research it provides.

        I'm sure Apple would dearly love to be able to exclusively offer an entire album by a major mainstream artist who sells in the millions, but the labels aren't ready for that yet.

  • Yeah, smart move... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonvmous Coward ( 589068 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:37PM (#6386732)
    "There will be no physical CD and it will only be available from the iTunes Music Store."

    Brilliant. Give non-Mac users a desire to use P2P to acquire the music.

    • Interesting point. But since there's no KaZaa for the Mac...

      And, btw, why the hell isn't there?

      • Re:Yeah, smart move... (Score:5, Informative)

        by usr122122121 ( 563560 ) <usr122122121@braxtech . c om> on Monday July 07, 2003 @09:28PM (#6387835) Homepage
        Interesting point. But since there's no KaZaa for the Mac...
        And, btw, why the hell isn't there?
        There is, it's called mlMac [abyssoft.com].
        • Don't forget Acquitision [acquisitionx.com] -- it's a real nice P2P app for OS X. It supports swarm downloading, host browsing, has real nice filtering and so on.

      • Re:Yeah, smart move... (Score:4, Informative)

        by WatertonMan ( 550706 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @10:16PM (#6388119)
        There are a few other clients for KaZaa.

        mlMac [versiontracker.com]

        Neo [versiontracker.com]

        However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.

        I personally use Direct Connect. You can find a hub with the style of music you like and are more likely to find obscure music. (i.e. blues, jazz, etc.) Further it has a much better selection of TV shows if you are trying to find a show you missed that week. The Mac client is still so-so, but they fixed the memory leaks of the version from the fall.

        • However KaZaa has really gone down hill, mainly because of studio action. Most songs I try and download are "tweaked" with yelling in the middle or beeping or are of the wrong sound. It really isn't a good place to find music.

          I'm wondering what kind of music/artists you're downloading? Of all the talk about fake mp3s on Kazaa, I've never actually encountered one in two years or so of using it. Maybe that's because I don't generally download the newest, most popular songs though . . .

          About the lack of
    • Actually, there will indeed be a physical CD, for the benefit of people who can't (or won't) use the iTMS; the CD just won't be distributed at retail in the US.

      In the US it'll be available only through the record label's site [varesesarabande.com]; outside the US it'll be sold in all the usual ways. Presumably CD stores in the US that carry imports will also get a few copies that way, so it actually should be quite possible for non-iTunes users to get it (and of course, once the Windows version is released, most people will be

      • "Actually, there will indeed be a physical CD, for the benefit of people who can't (or won't) use the iTMS; the CD just won't be distributed at retail in the US. "

        Ouch, glad Slashdot doesn't use the word 'fact' anywhere. ;)

        "As for whether it's a smart move or not, the point is actually to determine just that."

        That's why I was annoyed. iTunes isn't mature enough for that. Granted, it's been successful, iTunes still isn't available for Windows. So the market's not just internet users, but Mac users?

        • Ouch, glad Slashdot doesn't use the word 'fact' anywhere. ;)

          Heheh. Well, they (the other news reports and even Apple itself) are calling it an iTMS "exclusive"; I guess not having the CD be sold at retail in the US is considered close enough to the same thing. I'm not sure when it will be released; I've seen some indication it will actually be through a sublabel/sister label of Varèse's sometime in August, at least for the overseas release; I'm not sure if that applies to the website-only CD for th

          • "so presumably the worst-case scenario for people who want this is they'll either have to wait for some indeterminate time between a week and six months to get it from the Windows iTMS"

            Well, that's what sparked my original comment. They won't wait. They'll acquire it via P2P. And if that happens, I worry that it'll be used to justify DRM and legislation and everything else the RIAA has tried to do. I realize this is FOX and not the RIAA, but still.

            "Hmm... perhaps that's why the CD's getting released
            • Mm. Well, you're certainly not alone in your concerns; the messageboards over at Film Score Monthly [filmscoremonthly.com] have had considerable debate on the topic. If you're interested in seeing it, here [filmscoremonthly.com] and here [filmscoremonthly.com] are a couple threads with people debating it; I'm in there, myself, on the side of those who think it's a cool idea.

              It was in the older thread that I first heard about the iTMS distribution; through one of the other posters, I eventually got in touch with the Fox Music record producer who gave me the info that let me

              • Heheh good job on scooping MacCentral. ;)

                "I gather you're interested in getting this soundtrack, as I am; are you into scores?"

                Sometimes. The music itself wasn't of that big of concern to me when I posted, but rather some of the motivations behind it. I mean, if the music turned out pretty decent, yeah I'd probably want to get it. However, I didn't post because I was going to be first in line to get this particular album.

        • "Actually, there will indeed be a physical CD, for the benefit of people who can't (or won't) use the iTMS; the CD just won't be distributed at retail in the US. "

          Ouch, glad Slashdot doesn't use the word 'fact' anywhere. ;)

          The CD is now available at Varèse's site [varesesarabande.com].

  • I'm sure that Joe Midwest will be clamoring to buy a mac and iPod, sign up for iTunes, pay a buck a song, and download the soundtrack to extraordinarily old gentlemen!

    This can only be indicitive of the luke-warm reception that is expected for this turkey.

    -n

    • Re:I predict 4% on the Tomatometer! (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Just for that, this Joe Midwest is going to buy the damn album. See, I've already got a Mac, an iPod, an iTunes account, 'lectricity AND indoor plumbing. Let me guess, you're on a coast aren't you?
    • Actually initial reviews are surprisingly good. I don't trust reviews by "fanboys" myself. (Hell, far too many said that T3, Daredevil, and Blade II were good). Still I think I'm more excited for this than I am for any movie since Matrix II.

      Reviews at AICN [aintitcool.com]

      Actually I'm more excited for the new Pirates of the Carribean movie. That looks like it may live up to what all the other movies this year have been trying to do and failing miserably. (Actually I liked Matrix: Reloaded - but it still wasn't near

  • I hear dracula's bride (Score:2, Offtopic)

    by Sevn ( 12012 )
    is quite the extraordinary gentleman.
    • Heh. Yeah, they've marketed this movie really poorly, IMHO. They should have listed the characters involved from day one of the commercials. And the LXG moniker has to go...

  • What if? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by wowbagger ( 69688 ) * on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:39PM (#6386750) Homepage Journal
    What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?

    What if I prefer my music to be compressed with FLAC?

    What if I prefer to compress my music with MY parameters, to meet MY standards of audio fidelity?

    While I am all for Apple being able to distribute this electronicly, while I can accept Apple being given sole electronic distribution rights to this music, I don't like that this won't be available as a plain ol' CD.

    • Re:What if? (Score:3, Funny)

      by Uart ( 29577 )
      Bah. Its just a soundtrack. As with all movie soundtracks you will be able to find all of its songs on the next "NOW Thats What I Call Music 37" compilation - which you can encode as you see fit.
      • I wouldn't blow off all soundtracks like that. Two off the top of my head that were very good were the Singles Soundtrack and that of The Crow.
      • It's not a bunch of pop songs. It's the orchestral score (you know, that stuff a lot of people call "background music").

        There may indeed be compilations someday that include at least a bit of this music, but they won't be of the "NOW That's What I Call Music" variety.

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Elwood P Dowd ( 16933 ) <judgmentalist@gmail.com> on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:52PM (#6386840) Journal
      What if...

      Then don't buy it.
    • I guess the obvious answer to all your what-ifs is to go record your own soundtrack and make a professional-quality CD. It's their content, and they have the right to distribute it how they like. (But maybe lots of people share your feelings, and will complain, and not buy through the iTMS, and it will blow up in their faces...)

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by switcha ( 551514 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:00PM (#6386899)
      Music is art.

      Just because you are used to one way of purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other methods 'unfair'.

      What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?
      So should sidewalk chalk artists not be allowed to make drawings?

      What if I prefer my music to be compressed with FLAC?
      So, should publishers not be allowed to print a book in whatever size they want, then distribute it on tape/cd/ebook/etc if they want?

      What if I prefer to compress my music with MY parameters, to meet MY standards of audio fidelity?
      So should a painter have to check with the buyer before he decides oil versus pastels, canvas versus illustration board, small versus mural, etc.?

      Sure you can hang it/display it/listen to it wherever you want once you get it home, but as to where you can buy art, it's not 'unfair' that you have to go to a gallery contracted to sell the piece. Art isn't public domain (despite p2p advocates). It's a product, and if you choose to enjoy it, you are stuck with how the artist/rep choose to let you partake in it.

      • Re:What if? (Score:5, Interesting)

        by n.wegner ( 613340 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:19PM (#6387048)
        >Art isn't public domain

        To paraphrase the US constitution:

        Culture is the public domain. Art is one form of culture, and culture contributes to art. The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture. The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture. The burden of proof lies with you.

        >Just because you are used to one way of
        >purchasing/enjoying art, doesn't make other
        >methods 'unfair'.

        In the general sense, yes. But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.

        • Re:What if? (Score:4, Interesting)

          by switcha ( 551514 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:30PM (#6387117)
          The public has the right to freely enjoy its culture.
          And likewise, freely make their own art/culture contribution if they don't like what's offered. With all due respect, the way you phrased your initial comment could be twisted to include 'code poetry'. Yay, software piracy is for the 'greater good'.

          The US constitution makes it very clear that copyright is only granted, for a limited time, to reward the public for creating and expanding the public domain, and the public's culture.
          Very clear also, is copyright law that says you can do what you want with your work until the time you aren't protected by that law, and the 'common good' stuff kicks in. As far as I know, the soundtrack was just released and has a ways to go before it's in the class of American Standards.

        • Re:What if? (Score:3, Insightful)

          by hype7 ( 239530 )

          But when Apple only sells music in a worse (more lossely compressed than CD or Flac), or the Louvre only sells copies of the Mona Lisa on postcards, or Pendant publishing won't even print old liturature, then it's both unfair and unethical to deprive the public of enjoying its culture.

          Which is no different to selling on CDs. It's not the quality of the original. It's compressed to facilitate distribution.

          To insist on getting original quality for every piece of artwork is totally infeasible - it either re

      • Re:What if? (Score:3, Insightful)

        by NanoGator ( 522640 )
        "Music is art."

        Yeah, that could be said. (though the formula for it makes people question the artistic nature of it...)

        However, art is not just about self expression, it's about entertainment. Read on.

        "So should sidewalk chalk artists not be allowed to make drawings?"

        If their goal is to entertain, then sidewalk chalk artists wouldn't have much of a living. You have to admit, though, you have reached a ridiculous extreme here.

        "So, should publishers not be allowed to print a book in whatever size
        • For those of us with A.D.D., here is a short version of the parent post:

          The movie director decides "this character will die." The customer decides "we want to watch him die on VHS and not Beta."
          • Eh sorta. The way I think of it, a comic is funny if he does what it takes to make the audience laugh. If he won't do what it takes to make them laugh under the guise of artistic license, then he's a terrible comic.

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by dhovis ( 303725 ) * on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:00PM (#6386901)

      The way you talk, you'd think CDs were perfect reconstructions of the original music.

      What if I prefer to get the original master tapes?

      What if I prefer to create my own mixes of every song?

      What if I prefer surround sound?

      Every audio format out there has limitations, even CDs. For the price, you can't complain too much. Personally, I'd like to see Apple keep the singles price at 99 cents and drop the typical album price to $4.99. Given the info that leaked about Apple's meeting with the indie music labels, I think that is what Apple would like too. At that price point, it would be hard to complain too much about the audio quality unless you are really psycho.

      • While AAC is lossy it supports 5.1 Channel Sound. Lets see your CD and/or FLAC do that.

        Sometimes you get what you pay for (which is why im glad i bought a mac).

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:30PM (#6387118)
      What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?
      Tough shit.

      What if I prefer my music to be compressed with FLAC?
      Tough shit.

      What if I prefer to compress my music with MY parameters, to meet MY standards of audio fidelity?
      Tough shit.

      I don't like that this won't be available as a plain ol' CD.
      Tough shit.

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Llywelyn ( 531070 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @09:17PM (#6387779) Homepage
      >What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?

      Then purchase it from the iTMS, insert a blank CDR, and burn a copy from the playlist.

    • Re:What if? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by derch ( 184205 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @11:07PM (#6388372)
      I prefer that the government would give me a boat and pay me a million dollars to fish.

      We're both SOL.

      Can't you see the announcement is only for the free advertising? A month after they release the movie, Apple and Fox will quietly release the soundtrack on CD. Neither will sacrafice the chance to make extra money.
    • 1. More lasting than what? The AAC files you get can be burned to CD(s), put on multiple hard disks, removable storage, put on a remote file server, printed out on paper, copied out to open-reel tape, etc. How much more "lasting" can you get?
      2 & 3. when you purchase a CD you don't get to choose the encoding format. You have no choice. Why should this be any different?

      You forgot to add:

      What if I prefer to build my own hall suited to my ear, and select and conduct my own musicians to suit my taste in in
    • What if I prefer to buy my music in a more lasting form?

      You haven't heard the soundtrack yet, are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want it in a more lasting form?
    • I've mentioned this in a few other posts now, but... The soundtrack will be available on CD directly from the website of record label Varèse Sarabande [varesesarabande.com] for the benefit of those unable or unwilling to get it from the iTMS. The "exclusive" thing actually just means the CD won't be sold at retail stores or at any other online vendors besides Apple and the label.
    • You can now get the CD version directly from Varèse Sarabande at their site [varesesarabande.com]. The "iTMS-exclusive" means it won't be sold at retail in the US, or through online resellers like Amazon, CDNow or whatever, but those unable or unwilling to use the iTMS can still get a conventional CD directly from the label. It's more expensive, of course, but if the difference is worth it to you to specifically seek this version over the other, presumably it's worth paying more as well.

  • This is a test from the labels... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gozar ( 39392 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:45PM (#6386790) Homepage
    This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.

    They can then use this to show that the protection in the iTunes store is not enough, and try to force Apple to change it before iTunes comes out for Windows.

    All IMHO... :-)

    • Re:This is a test from the labels... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by mallie_mcg ( 161403 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @06:50PM (#6386828) Homepage Journal
      This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.

      I think you forget Europe, Australasia etal, where there is no iTunes store available, the media moguls would have only given iTunes the rights to US distribution, besides, most of the sound track will probably be available today for download of the p2p networks as well as purchase from Music stores. (you would probably have to buy several albums to get it all though).
      • I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some kind of watermarking in the audio files that hasn't been announced, specifically so they can track this kind of thing. Least that's what I would do if I were doing this.
      • most of the sound track will probably be available today for download of the p2p networks as well as purchase from Music stores
        No, it's actually 13 orchestral songs and two world music songs. So, no it isn't available by creating your own from other albums. And it's pretty good, I'm listening to it on my iPod while I type this comment.
    • This is a test from the labels on how safe their music is in the iTunes store. They will know that the only way this music will make it to the various P2P apps will be from some Apple user who buys the album, burns a CD, then rips it to MP3 to distribute.

      Unless it is all new music, it will most likely be singles that you can buy individually or get off albums from the artists.
    • Well we already know how to get around it...

      Burn it to a CD then re-rip it, capture it digitally and re-rip it, hell you can even make a tape of it if you want. I think think this is a good test of "is it still possible to P2P the stuff," because well, obviously it is. Look at how much material comes out pre-release when it gets leaked from the companies themselves.

      There will ALWAYS be a way to pirate things, it's just a tradeoff of quality, time, and cost. At $.99 for the original high-quality (AAC 128k
    • Ha!

      Not only could a ripped version of the soundtrack originate from other countries, but it could also originate from inside the music industry.

      That would explain how I downloaded Smashing Pumpkin's Machina about a week before it was released and I bought it.

  • I bet 2 cents that this will be on P2P within a week of release !!

    PS: I don't use Mac or P2P
    (I make my own music using Prodikeys [prodikeys.com]).

  • Testing the waters. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by piznut ( 553799 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:07PM (#6386951)
    You have to figure that a soundtrack is a pretty profitable item in terms of the cost to create. There is no real new work that needs to be done other than compiling existing music into a nice package.

    It is probably a fair generalization to say that soundtracks rarely sell in the same volumes as albums from pop artists. The loss of profit by reducing to such a niche market will probably be mostly offset by the higher profit margin associated with not actually having to create or mfg'r any media or packaging materials.

    If they (being the publisher) lose a little money on this, it won't be much and can probably be chalked up as the cost to test this particular market.

    Where am I going with this? Nowhere really...just some observations.
    • The majority of the tracks are original compositions by Trevor R. Jones performed by the London Symphony. Two tracks are more ethnic African tunes from Lady Blacksmith Mumbazo...this was all mentioned in the C|NET article.
      • But it's still existing music in that it was recorded on the movie studio's dime, not the record company's.

        • Re:It's an original score...not a compilation. (Score:4, Interesting)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07, 2003 @10:08PM (#6388068)
          That's not true at all. The music for the film is recorded in a completely different set of recording sessions than the music for the soundtrack album. The acoustics of the studio are different, and the placement of microphones is changed to record for a two-channel mix versus a six-channel mix.

          Score albums are entirely different recordings from the scores themselves.

          • The music for the film is recorded in a completely different set of recording sessions than the music for the soundtrack album. The acoustics of the studio are different, and the placement of microphones is changed to record for a two-channel mix versus a six-channel mix.

            Actually that raises an interesting issue. Since AAC can handle 5.1 channel surround sound (and more, take a look at this discussion on the 3ivx forums [3ivx.com]), it might be nice to have the soundtrack in the full 5.1 channel surround sound whi

        • There's a whole body of regulation involving what are known as "re-use" fees, where royalty fees covering "re-use" of the music (the original use being in the film for which it was recorded) apply to most soundtracks covered by union orchestras. These fees, along with complicated legal things I don't have time to go into (I'd need to make a huge post), effectively prevent a lot of soundtrack albums from getting released altogether, and prevent a lot of others from being longer than they are (there are quite
      • >this was all mentioned in the C|NET article.

        You mean you want us to actually *read* the articles that are being linked to?

  • Apple's got something up their sleeves. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by sonicsft ( 195337 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:17PM (#6387029)
    If you look at surrounding evidence that's popped up recently:
    -Job posting for Windows iTunes developer
    -Numerous bands are being scheduled to play Friday in apple stores, etc....
    -This album announcement

    I'd say Apple is about to release iTunes for windows. But I'm never very accurate on this guesses by it makes sense to me...

    -sonic

  • They're experimenting (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jlower ( 174474 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:20PM (#6387052) Homepage
    Just wait, when they debut the Windows version of iTMS, there will be another exclusive, probably much bigger than this one, to go with the launch.

    They're just experimenting now -- testing the waters.
    • "They're just experimenting now -- testing the waters."

      Yes, that is an idea... Or maybe they know NOONE will buy this cd, but if they make it 'EXCLUSIVE' to ITMS, then someone will be wooed by it, and buy it... they are using the same trick the movie industries does when they re-release a 6-month old dvd with 'Added Bonus Footage'... people will fall for it, the industry knows it.

  • But.. (Score:5, Funny)

    by n-baxley ( 103975 ) * <nate@baxleysIII.org minus threevowels> on Monday July 07, 2003 @07:20PM (#6387053) Homepage Journal
    What if one of those 5 people who want it doesn't have a mac?

    • simple (Score:3, Interesting)

      by SHEENmaster ( 581283 )
      Start up MoL [maconlinux.com] on any PowerPC, dump sound to a WAV while playing the proprietary files, compress and distribute.

      An easier way would be to burn it to disc and rip that disc. It won't sound as good, but figuring out the compression part of the iTunes format and overlaying that onto another format could fix such problems. Then again, we can always distribute a ~50mb WAV for each song if we're desperate enough.

      As soon as someone cares enough to make the tools, high quality rips of iTunes music will be ava

      • From the MoL site, that you graciously linked to:

        MOL is not an emulator but runs runs the OS directly without any CPU emulation. Moreover, NO ROM IMAGE is required.
        Basically, that means that you have to have OS X installed on the PPC box you're using before you use MoL. So it doesn't work on any PPC, it only works on macs running linux.

    • Re:But.. (Score:5, Funny)

      by questamor ( 653018 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @09:14PM (#6387761)
      They'll just have to find one of the 5 mac users that're still left, of course.

      (yeah, it's a troll, and I'm a mac user too :P)

  • What's That? (Score:2, Redundant)

    by Dr Reducto ( 665121 )
    I think I hear Apple computers being sued for a lot of money by the Apple record company, which is owned by members of the Beatles.

  • It's a singles thing (Score:3, Insightful)

    by borkus ( 179118 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @09:18PM (#6387788) Homepage
    A soundtrack/score could do well this way. I may not be willing to buy an entire CD, but if I may for one or two tracks.

    While the iTunes store is pretty limited, the label can find out if this is a more profitable way to handle this kind of recording. Many record companies have large libraries of tracks that are out of print - putting those tracks online could give them a new stream of revenue.

  • Oh well, can't buy it. boohoo. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Muggins the Mad ( 27719 ) on Monday July 07, 2003 @10:35PM (#6388224)
    And for those of us where iTunes Store isn't supported.... (ie. the rest of the civilised world)

    It's only a bit of music, I'm not going to lose any sleep over not being able to buy this one, but exclusive deals in any form just suck.

    I tend to shy away from services that are full of "exclusive this, exclusive that" as they're just damaging my freedom of choice.

    - Colin

  • Never happy..... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by kilauea ( 263775 )
    So, the "slashdot Community" justified their piracy on the grounds that the music Industry doesn't sell the music in the form they want it in.
    So someone has done exactly that....and now you want it on CD, encoded differently, whatever.

    Your getting what you asked for. Will you all now admit you just dont like paying for music regardless of format or delivery mechanism?

    Gaz.
  • At this point, I have to think this is a bad idea. Macs just aren't common enough for albums to be exclusive to iTunes. Once the Windows version is out, it is feasible.

    The worry I have is that since there aren't very many Macs, it's going to sell relatively few copies (compared to your average new movie soundtrack CD), and the labels are going to turn around and say "hey, we tried it, and it didn't sell!" as an argument against the iTunes model.

  • I actually bought it... (Score:5, Informative)

    by mbbac ( 568880 ) on Tuesday July 08, 2003 @11:08AM (#6391568)
    I bought the album last night from iTunes Music Store. It's a pretty good soundtrack. If the movie is anywhere near as good as its soundtrack, it'll be exceedingly better than my expectations.

    Anyway, $9.99 for 13 tracks of nicely composed orchestral work and two excellent world music songs is pretty good. I'm listening to it on my iPod as I type this.
    • Three words: Peta Wilson's Breasts. And in a corset no less. I'll be seeing them, er, I mean, the movie, of course.

      To drop the macho facade for a moment, I've enjoyed Ms. Wilson's style since USA Network's La Femme Nikita. Besides, she's got "It".

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