Concord just announced they will be releasing a 4-CD boxed set of all the Indiana Jones scores this fall, coinciding with the DVD release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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One of the four CDs will be the KotCS score, so it looking very likely that the scores for the previous three films will be re-issues of the previous album arrangements, unexpanded.
This year was a huge opportunity to do complete releases. After 2008, market awareness and anticipation will never again be so high.
And they blew it. Instead, Lucas is too busy wasting his time and resources on "perfecting" Raiders with CGI.
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The money spent on this pointless "enhancement" could have paid for the re-use fees and maybe some of the album production costs.
I'll bet Spielberg, an admitted soundtrack collector, has the complete scores burned onto diamond CDs, kept in solid gold jewel cases, with liner notes printed on hundred dollar bills.
I feel like Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes. My body is crumpling into the surf.
YOU MANIACS! YOU SCREWED IT UP! GODDAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
Is anybody here as disappointed (and disgusted) as I am?
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