"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" soundtrack will only be released via iTunes

[wessman]

Well, that's kinda rotten...

'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive
from the five-parsadigm dept.
posted by timothy on Monday July 07, @18:33 (music)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2124242

Isbiten writes "[1]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. [2]Cnet has the story."

Links:
1. http://www.apple.com/
2. http://news.com.com/2110-1027_3-1023403.html

[Potato]

Sounds like a nice little experiment. I wonder how well it'll go over.

[nf1n1te]

Is this suppose to stop it from spreading to P2P's? Ahaha...
If I liked the movie.. I'd buy the CD.. but this is a pretty stupid move.

[Wolfie]

Assuming anyone wants this, what's stopping ppl from sharing the version the get from itunes elsewhere on other networks?

PS.I never used itunes so sorry if this sounds stupid.

[Ken17625]

Yep at probably 99 cents a song in aac format at shitty quality.

Anyone know what crap is on the soundtrack?

[TipYourBartender]

It's all classicla music from what i understand.

[serrebi101]

All a person has to do is burn the aac tracks they purchased to cd, then rip them into mp3. Ha, this is not gonna stop anything.\

[isus]

it's not supposed to stop it from getting on p2p, to all the people who think that's what this move is about.

it's about not making a cd. it's about selling an album for $10, digital only.

sure, you could buy the album, then make the cd, and have a cd.

this is a business move between apple and lxg. not some way to just stop p2p.

to everybody who thought that: you are a complete idiot. nothing will stop p2p.

[wessman]

Originally posted by isus
...it's about not making a cd. it's about selling an album for $10, digital only...

I have to agree. What the studio is testing through iTunes (the most successful pay service so far) is how much money the recording studio can make off a digital-only release? Now sure, this test uses a very narrow buying audience, that of classical and soundtrack music. But it's an important niche because it's probably one of the least pirated, but top-selling types of music.

I personally think the CD is still a necessary product. And when I see this movie and if I like the music score, I would be interested in the soundtrack CD. But, I understand what the studio and iTunes is trying to do here.

[johnsmatrix]

"The album will not be sold on CD domestically at retail, although a CD version from Varèse Sarabande will be released at retail in other countries, and will also be available in the US directly from the label's site for the benefit of US customers unable to use the iTMS."

Full story here (http://www.clanmacgaming.com/articles.php?read=2081)

Not really my kind of music anyways, but good luck. Fox Music will probably blame P2P anyways saying that they were forced to use Itunes.

Oh yeah.. I forgot.. Not everyone has a computer.. What about the minority?.. No CD = no sales for them..

[at.morris]

Or it could be a cunning test to see how long it takes for iTunes music to get onto p2p....

They say atheists are most likely to believe in conspiracies - which is probably why I just thought of this! More likely, isus is right.