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Originally posted by gkgyver:
I'm telling you, this is just absolutely stunning! Be prepared for a POWERFUL new version of Forth Eorlingas' first minute! And the unused chorals in The WOlves Of Isengart ... à la bonheur!

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Oh, shut up now, will ya?!

And don't forget that pesky rubber knub!

Or I'll hit you.

I just ordered the damn thing. Probably for $20 more than if I'd waited until next year.

Well, forget about breaking the law.

Y'all might make me make a special 1.5 hour trip just to get the set on Tuesday!

If Forth Eorlingas is as magnificent as you say I'll probably faint when I hear it.

Anyways, back to the countdown. If everything goes to plan, I should have my hands on the set in about 72 hours!!! Yipppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I reserved a copy for myself at a local Barnes and Noble. They said they were only getting two copies in on the 7th. Can you believe that?!

Anyways on tuesday, I shall:
1) go to school(10 -12)
2) call in sick to work(can you blame me)
3) pick up the set at barnes
4)go straight home(maybe grab a bite to eat
5) pop in the DVD audio disc on my 5.1 sound system, and 6) be transported to the world of Shore's Middle Earth!
*sigh* Sounds like a beautiful dream, let's hope it comes true

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Wow, it sure is getting exciting around here! I love it
(But not this talk of illegally downloading the greatest film music of our time. Mr. Shore and everyone who has worked on these CR projects (Doug ) deserves much better. But alas, I am not here to judge, so forgive my little rant.)

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I'm not downloading it illegally (it would take me until at least well into the 5th anyway with my connection), but if we are all going to buy it in physical incarnation anyway in 3 days, does it really matter?

Calvin: I think he did say where he got it... Usenet.com.

It's almost here! I'll have my copy in 6 to 10 days.

Yoda: "Patience! Away from the dark side of the internet you must be! Usenet.com, destroy you it will! Save you I can, if listen to my teachings you do!"

Show respect to our musical hero, Mr. Shore, and our wonderful liason, Mr. Adams. Avoid Usenet.com.

edit: By the way, I'm 20 years old.

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Originally posted by Magpie:
Calvin, re: Amazon shipping...

Up until recently, I ordered almost all my books and music (and some ToyBiz figures) from Amazon. I have an Amazon credit card. I ordered the CR-FOTR from Amazon and was outraged at their predicted delivery date (it was more than 2 weeks I think). I cancelled the order and paid pretty much full price at my local Best Buy brick-and-mortar store. Barnes and Noble was cheaper (online) than Amazon anyway. This year, I went with the cheaper B&N (no predicted delivery yet). It's supposed to ship out on the 7th and I can't imagine what would make take longer than a few days. I decided I could wait a few days for the break in price.

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Huh...that's intresting. Considering when all the times I've ordered from Amazon I have the option of selecting the type of shipping IE: Express (1 day), 2 days, or 5-10 days. I generally select 2 day shipping.

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.soundtracks. It was posted 11/03/06 so if your newsserver doesn't keep bodies or headers for longer than a day you might not find it. If you don't what the hell I am talking about, then you probably won't be able to find it.

Everyone here in this thread either already ordered TTT or will do so in the near future, so calling me or anyone else criminals is a bit of a stretch.
Only because it's against the law (maybe) doesn't make it unfair or injust by moral standards.

I don't think anyone's anticipation is lessened only because he's got the discs in crummy 224 kbit format.
These sets will be the crowning jewels of any collection, and no filesharing program on earth can diminish that, nor do we deprive anyone involved in this project of their reward by using them because we're still paying for it. And gladly so.

And I wouldn't dream about making these files available for someone who doesn't plan to pay for the set.

Besides, I already ordered the set. I still haven't listened to it and I might not before the release date because I do have other things to do.

I wouldn't bother to post my thoughts on this score, just as I haven't on the FOTR. I am neither dedicated enough or educated enough to offer anything other than a thumbs up or down. So here it is:

Thumbs up on the score! Thumbs down on the price.

Anyway, I paid the money for the set, and whether I listen to downloaded MP3s now or the real deal in three days is pretty irrelevant.

And excuse me, but since when is it disrespectful to Doug to "reveal" things, whatever that's supposed to mean? Is it forbidden to share new insights? Anyone can hear it in less than 60 hours anyway. Or is it disrespectful to release the set before Doug could "reveal" everything to us? Is the soundtrack.net review disrespectful for revealing details about unused passages?

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Originally posted by BigT1981:
Huh...that's intresting. Considering when all the times I've ordered from Amazon I have the option of selecting the type of shipping IE: Express (1 day), 2 days, or 5-10 days. I generally select 2 day shipping.

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I for one downloaded the set myself because I won't be able to buy it until January (along with FOTR set) and I honestly didn't feel like waiting three months to hear the score. I definitely still plan on buying both sets in January as I said and if you want to chastize or critize me for it I frankly don't give a crap.

I would like to humbly suggest that we refrain from all discussion of downloads, including debates on their legality, as well as comments based on listening to them. Failing to do so is highly disrespectful to Doug, who has worked so hard on this set. Asking him questions before the release date is even worse, because you are asking him to implicitly condone your actions.

People can discuss about the score before the release date if they want to. If you don't want to read about it then don't read about it, skip over the posts.

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Originally posted by BigT1981:
What the hell is up with all this "Don't discuss the score before the release date, it's disrespectful to Doug" crap (seriously no offense to you Doug)? I suspect Doug won't care if we discussed the score now or a week from now *rolls his eyes*.

People can discuss about the score before the release date if they want to. If you don't want to read about it then don't read about it, skip over the posts.

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I agree, I really don't understand this paranoia that a couple posters are exhibiting. Does Doug think that the posters on this thread will simply just download the tracks illegally and don't think to buy the box set? I highly doubt it. If I could find a way to listen to it a few days early by downloading illegally, I would, but since I have already pre-ordered the box set, who cares? Howard Shore is already getting my money and it's not like I won't make copies of it as soon as I get it so I don't damage the originals anyways.

These are the times as Doug listed them in the liner notes.

It just so happens that I do not approve of illegal downloading. I know it goes on. I know that ‘file sharing’ is something many people do to different degrees. But I think it is bad practice to openly discuss downloading an entire 3 disc set before it’s even released on a forum such as this. I am not only unhappy with the open discussion taking place here, I am unhappy with the terms being used to defend this behavior such as ‘paranoid’ and ‘full of crap’.

It's a dangerous thing to speak for someone else but I am one who will consider how my actions affect others. I would think it difficult to maintain a working relationship with official companies, organizations and people when one is a member of a site where members openly discuss illegal downloading, boast about it, and then put down other members who disagree with them.

The point is that Doug is a member of the company who produces the set we're all talking about. For people to openly talk about pirate copies in the same forum he is posting in is just plain stupid. We may be here simply as fans, but Doug is here as a representative of his company. That he is just as excited as we are about Howard Shore's works doesn't change that.