And thus adds to another long list of reasons people rip and share music because some other entity has to have more money.

So officially the TF3 and TF4 don't exist anywhere? Does that mean anyone who worked on the sound track can't get royalties anymore? Only 15,000 sales worth of royalties and that's it?

Please someone tell me that is not the case.

If that is the case, this whole need for more money via re-use costs after 15,000 sales would mean if the producers don't want to pay that extra charge...as a musician, I would be pissed! Seriously..."well there are no more residuals for your participation in the sound track because the work you did was too awesome and sold over 15,000 and since we impose extra fees that your producers can't afford, you are only allowed 15,000 units in royalties. Thank you for your understanding. -Your Union"

This can't be right.

 

My CD just arrived from LaLa Land music. As soon as I had finished reading the story, I ordered it. Just damned mad that i can't find Dark of the Moon on CD.

 

Did the same thing Ano and it's cheaper from lala than Amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Extinction-Score-Steve-Jablonsky/dp/B00OFJZ5LQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1417062438&sr=1-1&keywords=transformers+age+of+extinction

As for DOTM ...Amazon.com still has the CD listing as 'unavailable', so I keep hoping they'll make it happen one day. Not likely tho.

The only other thing you can do if you want a CD is order the London Music Works "Trilogy" version:

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Transformers-Trilogy-London-Works/dp/B005E06HEE/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1417062594&sr=1-9&keywords=transformers+score+soundtrack

It's actually pretty good, has decent choices from all 3 movies.

 

You know the CDs are included in that limit, right? Sure, they're floating around out there somewhere as physical objects, but the studio won't be making any more of them either.

As much as I hate to defend Americans, this isn't a law. It's a contract. No legislative body has restricted the sale of this CD in any way - the problem is the studio and the musicians' union came to a deal that only 15,000 copies of this recording would be made ever. And now they've sold those copies, and the studio is keeping it's agreement and not making more. (They're also not bothering to make use of the part that says "you can make more if you give the union more money," but that's their choice to make.)

And shocking as it may sound, even in New Zealand one can get sued for not keeping one's part of a contract - and that's not something copied from the Americans, that's something all of us got from the Romans.

 

Strikes me as a smart and prudent business decision. They already sold way more units than they thought they would. They could pay every single musician for the next chunk of copies (which would probably be another significant chunk), but what if they only sold another couple of hundred? In a scenario like that, they'd be bleeding money out of the profit they just made.

There will be no shortage of CD copies out there for people to buy if they still want it. They're not "depriving the fans". They already made enough, maybe the fans will just have to look for longer than 10 seconds to find it.