Me whining
The new Pixar movie Up just came out. I haven’t seen it yet, but look forward to sometime in the next couple weeks. Can’t wait to see Pixar animation goodness in 3D!
Right now, as far as I can tell, Pixar is the only good part of Disney. (Well, them and the theme park rides.) In fact, Disney executives should just fire themselves and let Pixar take over.
Anyway, I’m pretty angry with Disney right now. I saw that Michael Giacchino composed the score the Pixar’s new film, Up. Giacchino also did the scores for The Incredibles and Ratatouille. These are two of my favorite film soundtracks of all time; Giacchino is just brilliant. I was really looking forward to adding the Up CD soundtrack to my collection . . . but NOOoooOOO . . . according to this post, Walt Disney Records doesn’t plan on releasing a physical CD. They’re selling the score as download only, through iTunes and Amazon and such.
What the?! Why?!? Is creating physical CDs that expensive? Do they think all the people who would have bought the physical CD will just as happily download the album for only $3 less? Did they think it was just about the music? No, no, no . . . if it was just about the music, there’d be no reason to buy anything. For physical CDs, it’s about having something physical, something collectible, something you can easily play in any CD player. For digital downloads, it’s about convenience. One click (or a few) and you got the music you want. These are non-transferable. If I can’t have a physical CD, what incentive at all do I have for purchasing a download? That’s not what I wanted.
So thanks a lot, stupid Walt Disney Records! I hate you now! And I’m not buying a digital download for this movie soundtrack!
Or . . . who knows? Maybe the blog post is wrong, or maybe they’ll release a physical CD in a few years? Well, by then it will be too late! You big pathetic losers!
Stinks.