Originally Posted By danyoung I just listened to it on a long drive yesterday. Some really good performances!
Originally Posted By u k fan I do have that CD already. I love the Mickey Mouse March/Davy Crockett mashup!!!
Originally Posted By u k fan I sing in a folk group that does the odd bluegrass song so I'm always on the lookout for new material!!!
Originally Posted By MPierce I wonder if LeeMac could actuall get a better sample with a similar post over on the Disboards or perhaps at wdwmagic. The WDW forum here at LP is really a small community. I would certainly like to see many different offerings of Disney Music. I would also like to see how it will be promoted. I think once Disney fans became aware of where they could purchase hard to find or non existent Disney music they would be willing to pay a premium price for it. After all the Mouse has already indoctrinated us all into knowing that loving all things Mickey does not come cheap.
Originally Posted By Socrates I would be interested in a CD for up to $20. Beyond that, I'd need more detail. Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite Wow....Leemac, are you serious? The company doesn't think there is any profit/market for selling soundtracks of park music...even parades and shows? Seriously...? 1. That just means illegal sharing will continue, as it already is. 2. TWDC is really that shortsighted... wow, I was holding out faith. But damn. And no World of Color soundtrack. Literally one of the dumbest decisions I've ever heard. Really...where do they get their business/market research from...? I mean, do they know how many people request music in shops after they've seen a major parade or show? Can't tell you how many people requested Parade of Dreams music every time I was in the park... And now, not even WOC? Wow...
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite And yet, Tokyo...and even Paris (and sometimes WDW) is able to do it... how are they so able to do it, and sell it, but not Disney USA (DLR)? And yet they can shove a million Disney channel/Jonas/Miley cds in our faces as if that's "Disney music"...sold on Main Street? Good God... I thought Iger was all about technology and taking Disney into the next century as a leader? Why not itunes/digital only releases? That why there is no need to pay for cd manufacturing, etc...?
Originally Posted By MousDad >>The parks just aren't interested in developing OCR or theme park music CDs any more<< This is one of the more disturbing things I've read in quite a while.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>1. That just means illegal sharing will continue, as it already is. <<< It's not illegal unless it's being sold, and not done for profit. That's how Mousebits survives.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> It's not illegal unless it's being sold, and not done for profit. That's how Mousebits survives. << So how come napster got busted. They weren't charging anything?
Originally Posted By danyoung >So how come napster got busted. They weren't charging anything?< Because they were giving away for free what was being charged for elsewhere. And that's the point - if Disney isn't selling music tracks anywhere, then it doesn't matter so much if they are available elsewhere for free.
Originally Posted By MPierce That makes sense. So if Disney decides to sell all of their music Mousebits would have to stop giving it away then?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>So how come napster got busted. They weren't charging anything?<<< No idea, that's before I was computer literate. LOL.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> No idea, that's before I was computer literate. LOL. << I'm still trying to obtain that title.
Originally Posted By leobloom >>>So how come napster got busted. They weren't charging anything?<<< Problem wasn't that it was free for users. Problem was artists and record labels weren't getting royalties.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I don't for a second believe soundtracks wouldn't sell (can't again speak for WoL as that music is so specfic and not widely loved/missed). It's that Disney doesn't want to make the product. I KNOW a WoC CD would sell. I KNOW a July 4th patriotic pyro and attraction CD would sell. Disney puts out what it wants (like the holiday party CD that came out a few years ago). Right now, Disney wants fanbois to buy vinyl, something I hope flames out in spectacular fashion ... and pins ... always pins. ~Kathie Lee is such a hoot!~
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>The company doesn't think there is any profit/market for selling soundtracks of park music...even parades and shows? Seriously...?<< Seriously. The problem is that there is a mindset in charge that equates success with MILLIONS of units moved. So a recording that would sell "only" in the hundreds of thousands isn't given the time of day. So yes, we will get the latest and greatest Jonas Brothers (with full promotion), but not World of Color...
Originally Posted By vbdad55 , Disney wants fanbois to buy vinyl, something I hope flames out in spectacular fashion ... ---- vinyl is like meth to try and wean pin (crack-pin) addicts.. I admit to having more than a couple now- mainly collect special ed's ...Shag ghost host..Sci Fi Diner..Tiki room etc. sheer pin volumes turned me off from that- I kept one large bag of special pins ( about 250 )- and sold all the rest,,didn't buy one pin this trip
Originally Posted By brotherdave I'm truly saddened that Disney is considering not producing future park music CD's. It was one of the guaranteed items I would purchase on my visits whenever there was a new one available, even if it only had a few new tracks. I also purchased all of the event or special show CD's (like Fantasmic or Spectromagic). Not producing a World of Color CD just seems really stupid and shortsighted on Disney's part.
Originally Posted By danyoung > It was one of the guaranteed items I would purchase on my visits whenever there was a new one available, even if it only had a few new tracks.< I have several of the Music From the Parks series. And all of them have some of the same tracks, like Pirates or the HM medley. But there's enough variety in them to make them all valuable to me. Heck, one of them even had the entire soundtrack to Light Magic! I've noticed a tapering off lately of new stuff, and it makes me sad.
