A Question That Could Cost Me Money
Does anyone happen to know why so few soundtrack songs are available as single tracks from services like Rhapsody and iTunes? There are quite a few tracks that my favorite artists have contributed to various soundtracks over the years and I haven’t quite been willing to pay the full album price for one sing. (Matthew Sweet had a great track on the Can’t Hardly Wait track called “Farther Down” that I’ve been looking for for years, ever since I gave up Napster.) As it is I gotta hope that the artist puts together a greatest-hits or b-sides compilation to try and track it down.
Ah well. Probably not an awful thing that I’m saving a few bucks this way. iTunes is already a vacuum.
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Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.
Sunday, April 22nd 2007 at 3:42 pm |
Yeah, personally I’d like to get “The Happy Worker” by Tori Amos without buying the soundtrack to Toys.
Just speculating, but if you consider how reluctant musicians and record companies are or were to break up regular albums and sell them track by track on iTunes… in the case of soundtracks, there’s a whole additional set of potential rights holders, the film makers, who might need to consult and approve and negotiate their share before material is released in an unanticipated format.
Sunday, April 22nd 2007 at 10:50 pm |
Yeah, I also have a hunch that whatever rights the original recording artists (and their labels) gave to the soundtrack producers, those rights did not include the right to sell the songs individually, which would explain why so many soundtracks require you to buy a whole album. Guess I’ll just have to do with the dozens of others ways iTunes can suck money out of me.