Just heard back from Harry Manfredini and he informs me that, aside from ACES, WISHMASTER, and JASON X, which are manufactured CDs, that the rest are all, in fact, CDRs.
He adds that "most of these were never released as an album.. so they were never ever manufactured... there are no CDs. The others are all out of print, from years past.... there are no more copies... so these are also CDrs." Also, he states that if he didn't make the CD available this way, then they wouldn't be available at all. Such is a market where a demand is either there or not - so why factory press a batch of CDs if they can't moved.
I made mention to him that some collectors had taken issue with Alan Howarth's sale of non-disclosed CDrs, and that they weren't advertised properly. Also, I told him that this discrepancy had, more or less, a negative effect with fans who have been clamoring for such out of print Cds, and that this had alienated some, especially after the fact.
Not wanting to mislead anyone, he said that he would eventually make a note on his site informing collectors of the CD or CDr status of his sites items.
Weather they be CDRs or not, does that really matter to the fans? Even when coming from the composer, are CDRs of score collectible? Going back to a previous post (
http://www.intrada.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 55&start=0 ), it's about getting the music out, right?
So what do you guys think?
~ Scorehead