Intrada Soundtrack Forum

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972

Actually, I would say Intrada track record isn't predictable. Between built-in ones, over-pressed titles, and under- pressed scores (Was "Emporer of the North" a pre-built limited?), that Intrada just does what it's forced to, with some stumbling inbetween. But no label can ever acheive perfect.

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"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
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THE PRISONER

Doug, Roger and Intrada do an outstanding job and are a class act in every phase.


There is no easy solution to this situation. We live in a world where nothing is really guaranteed to you. Oh sure you have certain rights and privilages and the opportunity to better yourself and collect things. But material things aren't something that every person has the rights to.

For every decision you make there's going to be someone who's not happy with it.

These would be my ideas:

1. Limit the number of quantities a person can purchase.

- How many copies per purchase do you limit it to? What about the person who buys them to give out as gifts to friends and family? Or what about those who buy for friends who can't get to a computer? Do you limit the amount vendors can buy as well?

2. Have a 2-4 day window for regular customers to purchase before you open the sales up to vendors and hoarders.

- A good idea but what about those who only buy from vendors other than Intrada? For whatever reasons there are those who only wish to purchase all of their CDs from either SAE, BSX, Moviemusic.com or Intrada. Do they miss out or do you force them to start buying from the various labels? And what about the vendors? Now they can't service their customers.

- We saw that fiasco when SAE's site went down the day FSM's Superman box was announced, people started ordering thru moviemusic.com and according to the site SAE asked them not to take any orders until they got their website up and running. Needless to say there were grumblings from moviemusic.com about not being able to service their customers because SAE put a hold on orders.

- Now imagine what would happen if labels started doing that with regular releases that didn't cause the websites to crash.

3. See who is buying large #'s of CDs who aren't the normal vendors and limit their purchases.

- Do Doug and Roger have the time to watch eBay and track every large sale? Would someone raise legal objections or issues over this?

4. Announce CDs but don't list the quantities.

- Might be the way to go. Hoarders aren't sure of # of pressings, don't want to buy stuff they'll be stuck with. However the regular customers may panic and all rush to buy at once.

5. Have a limited run of 200 to 500 copies if it sells out within 24 hours.

- I don't care about the value of my CD, I buy it for the listening pleasures. So if I buy something that says #5 of 1000 and then Intrada presses another 500 copies, it won't bother me.

- The only thing is can Intrada do it? Will studio license agreements allow them to?

6. Bring back the charter clubs.

- I earn a comfortable living however I cannot justify buying every single release. I don't want everything. I'm 40, have a family, work 45-50 hours a week, have other interests outside of film music and have over a 1000 CDs. I'm already running out of time to listen to what I have. I don't want to make it mandatory that I have to buy every release nor do I want to miss out on something because club members get priority over the regular folks.

- Does Intrada make a policy of all sales final and no returns?





Personally I like things the way they are, Intrada has an announcement time and they give clues. They need to move products, the more they move the better our chances of getting more goodies.

I am in favour of the following proposals:

1. Limit the number of quantities a person can purchase.

2. Have a 2-4 month window for regular customers to purchase before you open the sales up to vendors and hoarders.


I would like you to continue to list the exact pressed quantities each CD is limited to.

In response to today's Invaders From Mars

"Thanks" to Intrada in handling this release (the process of releasing the CD, not the CD itself) in the worst way I have seen so far. I specifically refer to these two problems:

1) Immediately (or nearly so) listing the CD as "less than 500 copies remaining"
2) "One copy per customer"

Problem 1 caused quite a lot of people to freak out about this CD becoming unavailable soon, though even more than 4 hours after the note appeared we still see the same "less than 500 copies remaining" (my guess: of those 700 copies "sold" in the first minutes, at least 500 or so were grabbed by other vendors). Which led to me being woken up at 3 A.M. by a friend of mine who was afraid the CD would sell out before I had a chance to order it for him in the morning.

Problem 2 meant that I had to order the extra copy from a different vendor, because Intrada would not sell it to me. Which I would understand if there were like 100 or maybe 200 copies left, but with 500 which apparently don't disappear all that fast anyway? Isn't that a bit extreme?

Not to mention that IF the CDs were actually selling out as fast as Intrada made them seem to go, and IF that friend didn't wake me up, I would miss out that CD just because I wasn't available online within two hours of the release. Are those subscriptions really such a poor idea? (It wouldn't be a major crisis in my life but I wouldn't feel too good about it.)