Originally posted by: Citizen
edit: BTW, apart from the laserdisc I also have the soundtrack on vinyl and the 12" mix vinyl (I know I know, lost cause and all that)
edit: BTW, apart from the laserdisc I also have the soundtrack on vinyl and the 12" mix vinyl (I know I know, lost cause and all that)
I wouldn't call it a lost cause, a decent number of major label albums are still released in LP format, and essentially everything released by the good minor labels comes out on vinyl. Audiophiles will continue to buy vinyl until a digital format that is easily usable and sounds as good (or more realistically, better) comes along, and even after such a format comes into existence, there will still be people like me who enjoy the overall package that vinyl provides as much as they enjoy it's superior audio quality.
On a related subject, at some point I intend to make a higher then CD quality soundtrack for the Star Wars movies using the pre-digital VHS sets, as I've always felt that the heavily used horn section suffers as a result of the CD quality level soundtrack (44100 hz 16 bit recordings are notoriously terrible when it comes to wind instrument reproduction). I also want to attempt to create an isolated score using the LPs, though I know that the LPs are missing bits of the score, so I'll have to figure out exactly what's missing and see if it can be filled in using the VHS tapes.