Let's Play A Game.

[Ollie 859]

All in good fun.

The grand prize?

To quote Judge Smails, "You'll get nothing... and like it!"

[Datameister 1,394]

It's more productive to talk to the seller than whine on a message board about the issue.

I never listen to a CD with the intent to look for flaws, though I do have pretty good ears and can't help it if I do notice some problems with it.

No composer has ever sent me an unreleased score. But if it happened, and if the idea was for me to keep it to myself, I would. It'd be difficult, but if that's what I said I'd do, I'd do it.

[Wojo 2,442]

I don't know any composers.

I know a few decomposers, though.

[Bellosh 1,410]

You Don’t Receive Your Order Within The Normal Alloted Time, Do You:

I just wait it out. Although if the Indiana Jones box set was more than a week or two late, I would have made some calls!

You Receive An Official Release Of A Holy Grail Score, Do You:

If it's an expanded release of a previous score, I will skip right to the new cues. If it's an official release I will usually skip to my favorite cues. Then eventually listen to them straight through.

A Composer Gives You An Unreleased Score In Good Faith. Do You:

I don't know any composers. But hypothetically, I would keep it safe and keep it secret.

[Charlie Brigden 5]

1. Living in the UK, I'm used to it taking a while.

2. I go into a room, turn the lights off, and enjoy the music.

3. I'd be too smug in thinking I was the composer's BFF for him/her sending me music to even think about letting anyone else have it. Anyone.

[Andy 1,492]

You Don’t Receive Your Order Within The Normal Alloted Time, Do You:

Happened to me with a LLL order. A quick friendly email resolved it.

You Receive An Official Release Of A Holy Grail Score, Do You:

Usually, others find the fault before I get a chance to listen. I have pretty good ears, but really there are only a handful of issues that ever bother me. Mostly it would be holistic problems with sound quality rather than isolated glitches. ( ie. Return of the Jedi RCA discs.)

A Composer Gives You An Unreleased Score In Good Faith. Do You:

That would be a great problem to have, wouldn't it? My daughter loves the movie Ramona and Beezus, and if anyone knows composer Mark Mothersbaugh, I could sure use a composer promo.

[Thor 5,273]

Very rhetorical poll there....

[Hlao-roo 388]

Very rhetorical poll there....

Not at all. All of the choices are legitimate and acceptable. Myself, out of consideration for their e-mail inboxes, I generally try to lambaste vendors on public message boards before contacting them directly.

[Brónach 490]

1) B

2) B. I nitpick afterwards.

3) Actually neither. I never uploaded something to Megaupload and all. Most people I know in person are not interested in what I listen to at all. I'd be glad and happy, but I wouldn't consider it just-for-me material if someone asked me for it!

[crocodile 6,294]

Second options.

Karol

[John Crichton 4]

2, 2, and 2. Though the first option on the first question can be fun to do in good humor.

[fommes 126]

This poll is REALLY FREAKING ME OUT. I blame Mark Olivarez for not thinking of us sensitive fans!

I also want to point out a few glaring spelling errors:

- not every word should begin with a capital letter in titles, let alone in sentences

- "IT" should be "It"

- "Mega-Upload" should be "Megaupload"

I'm going to have to report this poll to the Moderators.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

Second option for all of them, except for the last one I'd probably sent it to my brother if I knew it was something he would want.

[Richard Penna 2,083]

1 - Contact the seller privately. I e-mailed Silva Screen when a Thunderbirds CD didn't seem to arrive. I got no reply, but the CD magically appeared a day or two later.

2 - Umm, bit of both actually. My first grail was The Edge, and my first 'pass' was to listen to all the unreleased stuff, with my heart beating at every point that some alternate might be used or part of the mix had been removed from the film. When I'd ascertained that there were no major issues (I have a few minor mixing/editing niggles, but that's just me - LLL delivered a fine product), I sat back and marvelled

3 - It would certainly be a dilemma. I'm not certain what I'd do (I don't think anyone can be until it actually happened) but I do know it would be hard to not share it.

[fommes 126]

Would be great to have a serious poll, too, that has more gradations like: "Privately contact the shipper for every little thing", or "even if the order is only one minute late"; "First check the message boards before needlessly contacting the shipper"; "Put the CD on, enjoy the music, and then make a shorter album experience for your own listening experience (for We Can All Be Album Producers!)"; "Do an edit of your own that you feel is more appropriate for your Holy Grail score", or "because you feel you know your Holy Grail score better than the album producers"; "Ask the composer if you can share the unreleased score with a few fellow fans who you know are the biggest fans of this particular score"; etc.

[ST-321 4]

A Composer Gives You An Unreleased Score In Good Faith. Do You:

As a matter of fact, I do know a film score composer who has done this and I have indeed kept it just for me.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

It's easy when they are scores nobody wants.

[Charlie Brigden 5]

It's easy when they are scores nobody wants.

Yeah, I mean when he contacted me, I thought 'Well everyone hates AOTC anyway so no one'll want the recording sessions...'

[Morlock 9]

Wait, wait, wait....am I the ONLY one who toilet papers Craig Spaulding's house if an order is late/damaged/costs more than $15.43?

[Trent B 317]

I voted the bottom option for all three.

[Quintus 5,391]

In answer to the third question, whilst I wouldn't throw a it up onto Megaupload for a bunch of randoms to download, I would happily share it with any people on here who might appreciate the music. Because I'm nice like that.

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

Most of my ordered stuff comes from the good ole U.S.of A., so I'm happy to wait for up to 4 weeks for it. I have never been let down by SAE, yet.

I did order a "SpaceCamp" boot once, from...well, let's just say that it was a STORE which sold a lot of CINEMA stuff. It took nearly 3 weeks, and 2 telephone calls for it to travel just over 100 miles...

[Ollie 859]

It's easy when they are scores nobody wants.

It's easy when it's a score everyone wants.

[Wojo 2,442]

I don't hate people who have something if I don't know about it.

I hate people who have something and rub the fact that they have it in my face.

[Ollie 859]

I've never rubbed anything in anyone's face.

[fommes 126]

Let's not go there.

[Ollie 859]

Get your mind out of the gutter....

[Wojo 2,442]

I've never rubbed anything in anyone's face.

I don't believe that "It's easy when it's a score everyone wants." qualifies as a "never."

[Koray Savas 2,095]

It's easy when they are scores nobody wants.

It's easy when it's a score everyone wants.

I don't know, for me it was awkward when everyone was going on and on in like 3 different threads about how Sorcerer's Stone was their most wanted complete score and everyone was breaking down the cues.

[Ollie 859]

I've never rubbed anything in anyone's face.

I don't believe that "It's easy when it's a score everyone wants." qualifies as a "never."

That's the first time I've posted it and you have no idea what year it was from, the score may have already been released officially.

Or I could just be making a point. It's easy to keep stuff secret, whether it's a film score or something else. Mental toughness can go a long way.

[Wojo 2,442]

Was The Sorcerer's Stone recording sessions a score that someone was given in the strictest of secrecy, and then leaked anyway to the entire world?

Or was it just an extremely fortuitous discovery that everyone was permitted to partake in?

[Mr. Breathmask 480]

I hate people who have something and rub the fact that they have it in my face.

This, yes.

I've never rubbed anything in anyone's face.

Your wife must be grateful.

[Charlie Brigden 5]

Was The Sorcerer's Stone recording sessions a score that someone was given in the strictest of secrecy, and then leaked anyway to the entire world?

Or was it just an extremely fortuitous discovery that everyone was permitted to partake in?

For all we know, someone could have been murdered obtaining it.

[Wojo 2,442]

Good.

[Ollie 859]

Anyhoo, this is getting off target.

I fail to see how my comment could be misconstrued as rubbing it in anyone's face. It was a harmless comment.

It would be a different story if I came out and said I have a pristine copy of the TOD scoring sessions and you don't. That would be rubbing it in someone's face.

So, in this suddenly sensitive world, I apologize if people felt I was rubbing it in their face.

It was just a general comment.

[Koray Savas 2,095]

Was The Sorcerer's Stone recording sessions a score that someone was given in the strictest of secrecy, and then leaked anyway to the entire world?

Or was it just an extremely fortuitous discovery that everyone was permitted to partake in?

The former, most likely.