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SchiffyM · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 253

TJ (if I may call you that), the reason people think you're angry is because you keep talking about what you "should" pay for this. I don't know where this "should" thing comes from. It is up to any company in any business to price their product in such a way as to entice as many customers as possible without taking a loss. Roger has just said outright that the earlier Excalibur CDs have lost money. What more reason do you need for what this "should" cost? How can you call the price hike "unnecessary"?

You may choose to believe that the audience for this stuff is not shrinking, but it doesn't seem to be based on reality. Hard as it is for my 43-year-old brain to accept, the works of Hitchcock are increasingly seeming quaint to younger viewers. While, in my youth, films like "Spellbound" ran with some frequency on local television in prime time, now it's cast off to cable, channel 200 or something. Yes, there's home video, but I see that the film appears to be out of print on DVD. So I'm not exactly seeing how the audience for a CD like this is growing.

The thing is, you seem to be acting like Intrada is trying to rip you off. But no rip-off is possible where there's full disclosure. There's no bait-and-switch here, no hidden issues. The full track list is available for you to judge, with sound samples. And there, next to it, is the price. It's higher than you'd like, fine. But anybody ordering this CD is doing so fully aware of what he's purchasing. So I don't see the problem.

tjguitar · **Joined:** Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:12 pm **Posts:** 804

Fair enough.

Like I have said, many times, I hope it sells very well for them and they make profits from it, but I think they will lose many potential buyers by going above the $20 level. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't claim to be right. I made some general inquiries to the nice folks at intrada about why this price hike was necessary (do the selznick and rozsa estates require royalties, for instance), but it's mostly generic "non-answers" to quote some other poster from this board. Inflation plays a part, sure, but the exclusive online distributions helps offset that. Besides, that can't be all of it because if that were the case every other label would be jacking their prices up as well.

I also don't think gas should be $3.50 a gallon-----but it doesn't really matter what I think----other than the fact that I'm giving an opinion, on a message board where feedback is allowed/requested. You don't have to like it, and I don't think Roger or Doug's feelings are hurt because one person isn't going to buy one of their CD's. (even though others share the viewpoint, not on this board, but I digress.)

Anyway, about your point about old films not having a big market (other than maybe aspiring film directors?) I was more taking about the soundtrack releases, and namely the Gerhardts for starters. I have tons of scores from golden age (and silver age) films that I really have no desire of really ever buying, or renting for that matter. Hell, there are tons of current films that I love the scores (i.e. fast and the furious tokyo drift) that I have no desire to see the films. On the other hand, my uncle is a huge Errol Flynn fanatic, but I doubt he goes anywhere near "score CDs".

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