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Coronavirus is the worst what could have happened. I ordered and payed 18th May my order at lalaland records store. They send me the mail package on 30th May. Since then I received some information status where the mail package is, but almost one month after the package was sent to me it is still in the United States - in Los Angeles International Distribution Center. Last status is from 21st June - Your item was processed through our LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER facility on June 21, 2020 at 3:07 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination. So I still don't know if the mail package leaved United States or is still in the USPS International Distribution Center. Patience is the most important thing here at soundtracks business. I'm praying to not receive my new CD's at Christmas 2020.

Coronavirus is the worst what could have happened. I ordered and payed 18th May my order at lalaland records store. They send me the mail package on 30th May. Since then I received some information status where the mail package is, but almost one month after the package was sent to me it is still in the United States - in Los Angeles International Distribution Center. Last status is from 21st June - Your item was processed through our LOS ANGELES CA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER facility on June 21, 2020 at 3:07 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination. So I still don't know if the mail package leaved United States or is still in the USPS International Distribution Center. Patience is the most important thing here at soundtracks business. I'm praying to not receive my new CD's at Christmas 2020.

I have nothing else to say like "So close, so far away". The package came very fast from my country capitol city Warsaw to my town Wrocław. The mailman today came to my flat and leave letters and postcards (most of them from Christmas) but no my lalaland package. He leave only a paper note which I must take with me and I have to go to the post office alone to collect my package. I'm working so in home I was about 3 pm. So I took papers and run to the post office. And here came the New Years Eve. The postal office today changed opening hours. They closed at 2pm. Damn I was so furious when I came to the place. Once again postal office destroyed my plans. Tomorrow they're closed. So I stuck with waiting till second (2) January when I will come back from work finally I will be able to take what's mine.

I have nothing else to say like "So close, so far away". The package came very fast from my country capitol city Warsaw to my town Wrocław. The mailman today came to my flat and leave letters and postcards (most of them from Christmas) but no my lalaland package. He leave only a paper note which I must take with me and I have to go to the post office alone to collect my package. I'm working so in home I was about 3 pm. So I took papers and run to the post office. And here came the New Years Eve. The postal office today changed opening hours. They closed at 2pm. Damn I was so furious when I came to the place. Once again postal office destroyed my plans. Tomorrow they're closed. So I stuck with waiting till second (2) January when I will come back from work finally I will be able to take what's mine.

Count me in. I ordered on the 27th November in the first hour and still lalaland didn't send me a parcel yet. Few days ago they put a sticker with address and nothing more. Mailman didn't received the package yet.

I ordered Harry Potter box set, The World is not Enough and Die Another Day in the same order. I received notification it has shipped on 13th December. I ordered the order on November 27th, so I waited for 17 days.

I ordered the Harry Potter box set, because the World is not enough. I will not received it for Christmas, so I'll Die Another Day!
 
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Update from MV on the FSM board, makes me a little more at ease that I haven't received a shipping confirmation or tracking # yet.

As stated many times before, if you wanted this before Christmas it was wise to order it through us. We are literally sending out a few thousand of these things along with the other cds released. We are getting to them as quickly as we can. Our crew are working until 9...10 PM some nights processing and packing. Please be patient.

As always, please read statements carefully. We stated it will start shipping on Dec 7. START. So folks who just ordered Harry by itself, or with CDs that were in stock along with it have had their orders sent out...most of them. Our plant is literally feeding us 100s of boxes a day. We should get the rest of them this afternoon. Mr. Williams and I don't even have copies yet. Lol

Still waiting on Giants to come in and the rest of Dracula (don ask...blame the CD plants shutting down in the US).

Most stores were sent out Schindler and TWINE this week. 

MV

Who also lives in Europe like me? We have a serious problem. If La La Land don't prepare and send the mail packages with our ordered cds until 8th December (including that date) we won't see our christmas gifts under the christmas tree. More info here: Usps holiday shipping dates Bottom of the page "2018 Holiday Shipping Dates for International Mail"
 
I began to pray in order to La La Land tomorrow send me my order.

Who also lives in Europe like me? We have a serious problem. If La La Land don't prepare and send the mail packages with our ordered cds until 8th December (including that date) we won't see our christmas gifts under the christmas tree. More info here: Usps holiday shipping dates Bottom of the page "2018 Holiday Shipping Dates for International Mail"
 
I began to pray in order to La La Land tomorrow send me my order.

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Ladies and gentlemans
After many (i think thousands) times of repeating to myself : Don't buy it, don't buy it 
I finally gave up and I bought it
But I have a deal of my life
Here in Poland the matters with selling music and movies is very hard.
There are in recent times very little people who actually buy movies and music physically.
Even if we count the fact that many years ago (it was somewhere 2000s) when polish movie and music distributors went to a crazy idea to make polish edition of a foreign music album on CDs and foreign movie edition on dvds.
What it really means. That the disc is pressed in Poland on worse materials rather in country of origin. The booklet is like toilet paper and of course all the pages are gone in favour of just back and front of the cover (so You have two pages , sometimes four) The quality of print is very bad -washout colours, etc.
So for example. The polish edition of The Force Awakens cost here 40 (polish national money which is złoty - described as PLN. For all of You I will translate our national money as golden - because it's the best translation of this word)
So if the polish edition cost here 39,99 PLN (zł) golden, so it will be with today's exchange rates :
in US dollars : 9,9575 $
in Euro : 9,1697
And this is the edition with our polish cover (I attach the picture below so You can have fun how we translate Star Wars )
And this polish edition is counterpart of the standard jewel case edition in Yours country.
Now the real Star Wars (with English title and properly printed booklet with all the pages) which You called jewel case cost here in Poland (now I see a little drop in price but the real, official  price) is 64,99 zł (PLN) golden
US Dollars 16,1825 $
Euro 14,9087
After the discount the price is now 59,99 zł (PLN) golden
US Dollars 14,9375 $
Euro 13,7617
 
And I have bought this standard English edition for a bargain price (still new)
I have paid 25 zł (PLN, golden) for item and 9 zł (PLN, golden) for shipment. Which all is 34 zł (PLN, golden)
34 zł (PLN , golden) is
US dollars: 8,4626 $ and if we only take into account the price of CD it is 6,2225 $!
Euro: 7,7996 (without shipment the price of only CD is 5,7375!)
 
I think it all is / was the real bargain.
After I recently bought two Back to the future scores from Intrada it is nothing. But I'm happy with all discs.
 

 
I was in California visiting with some people in the industry and one of them played me some on his laptop.  Better versions of ROTJ absolutely exist than what was used for the 1997 SE CDs.  The entire 1997 SE project was rushed.  We'll get better versions of these classic scores one day, likely very shortly after Sony's contract ends.  It's too bad no one will say publicly when that is (I have no idea myself).

Now when almost 20 years has passed, and I have had listened thousands and thousands times to my polish edition of the 1997s RCA editions of the soundtracks to the Trilogy, which I have on compact cassettes (unfortunately they choose the worst type - type I, iron oxide tapes Fe2O3. On many poor and cheap players the audio frequency is below 16 kHz. I have the most expensive and top model from 1998s - Pioneer double cassette deck with many functions and special digital hiss remove process - including the very expensive audio heads. So I have 18 kHz audio from those tapes and dynamic 90 dB. But the tapes are getting old and they're probably worn out after so many times of playback).
Few days ago I have had opened the new compact discs editions from Intrada and Varese to "Back to the future" series. My God! the sound is incredible. I was crying from happiness when I hear it.
Now I'm in the same situation as many of You here - I'm torn apart between decisions
I almost feel like Luke in the Emperor's Throne Room.
The dark side and the Emperor - Sony are trying to seduce me to buy this - CDs/DVD box set.
But then I remind to myself the work of Chris Malone and the analysis of the all editions of star wars soundtracks.
Funny but when I see all those diagrams and Sonograms and read the whole story, I find peace and don't succumb to the Dark Side. Because what I will hear better on Sony's CDs if it is written that Star Wars on 1997s editions don't have frequencies above 17 or 18 kHz because the mastering process was screwed up or the master tapes (all the types of elements) was poor handled and stored in 20th Century Fox vaults. I never forgive them to store the masters for Empire which was founded very deep below ground in basement with poor window or pipes with water and the leak was damaging through couple of years the sacred empire masters.
Now there's only one question in my mind: will the quality of the new audio scan from masters and all the rest elements and restoration process done again by Mike M (or someone right to do this job) in the near future; be better than 1996 and 7s work? Will it be so beautiful like on Back to the Future Intrada's release?
We have passed 38, 35 and 32 years. Jaws masters have had gone 40th anniversary and many of You are saying here about astonishing quality of sound of the new Intrada's CDs release.
I'm ready to fight with myself few years ahead to wait and buy this upcoming gems.
Maybe it is driven by dream and decision, that I will buy the Indiana Jones COMPLETE 2CD's (for I hope at least three first movies) in near future
The Sony's Emperor is screaming to me: "You want this, don't You?" Greed welling "is swelling" up "in you now. Take" this. Use it." Buy it. "... Give in to your" greed. "It is unavoidable. It is your destiny."
 
But not this time. "I'm too old" and wise "to this something".
 

 
OF COURSE IT WILL!

'March of the Resistance.' Hoping that is an actual march. Which will be cool. 'Rey's Theme.' Yes please! Can't wait for a full concert presentation of a new theme! 'Han and Leia.' A return of their theme I see. Lovely. Hopefully a new presentation. No specific theme for Kylo Ren though, like Kylo Ren march or Kylo Ren's malice etc but with the piece called 'Snoke' it seems that there's a specific thematic presentation for Snoke which kind of tells me that he is perhaps the main villain and Ren is just a pawn. Very interesting.

Disney just assumed it was a mistake when Williams put all the tracks out of order. So they rearranged them to follow the narrative of the film.

I think those are the correct tracks. The only thing that puzzles me is that it appears to be chronological and we all know that JW doesn't usually do that with his albums. Perhaps working with LLL and Intrada a lot lately has given him a fresh approach to sequencing his albums.

I'm currently more anxious about the music that won't be on the OST than I am excited about the music that will be on it.
The perils of being a score fan

Thank you!

Sony have the rights to release whatever they want -- but only with the approval of Lucasfilm AND Williams' people.
Neither will occur now with Disney's ownership, so they'll just release the same material with new packaging over and over again instead.

Well they obviously did something with the OT material they were given for distribution right? I didn't buy Sony's editions, but didn't they have some kind of crappy Sony digital processing? That tells me that at least they have some options.
So what you're saying is, they don't have access, or rights to, the original masters, merely the versions that were on the RCA release?
Also, do you know for sure Sony doesn't have the rights or access to any more of the PT material beyond what's on TPM UE? I'm not doubting you, but clearly at some point for the first film at least they felt it worthwhile to release more than what was on the OS and had the ability to do.

Technically they have the rights to release unreleased prequel music for at least another 2 years, but Lucasfilm would just refuse their request to do so.
They'll only let Disney achieve that now.

"Audio was transferred from the original LP masters using the highest resolution (up to 192kHz/24bit)"
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