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Everytime I buy a composed score from a cd store, they ALWAYS say, “You do know this is the COMPOSED SCORE, right?” Yes, I know that. Does that happen to anybody else?
Yes, all the time, well not exactly…I don’t think I’ve ever heard a music clerk say “composed score.” It’s usually the one “without any songs on it.”
In those kinds of situations I find it better to not speak.-beth
I used to work at a music store and I asked people that, and in every occasion they were looking for the song soundtrack. As for the one person that wanted the score, I started up a great conversation, that lead to us trading a few CD-Rs of Record soundtracks that have yet to appear on CD.
There was actually a second person, but he told me “Yes I know that is what I want, the Background music.” So he went home with the score to Blade and came back the next day saying that it didn’t have any songs on it, so I had to show him the song Soundtrack – some people.
Before you say, why don’t I just let them take the score home, and we might gain some converts. I was the Assistant Manager, and was very dependent on a bonus from the store, when we did well, and one of the things that brought down our numbers were returns of any kind.
Nat
I go to an independant music store called Salzers and they are really cool about what I buy, well, except for my 7th grade teeny bopper phase, (ah.. 3 weeks.. 50 dollars..) in which they kept trying to talk me out of everything i wanted to buy.
when I couldn’t find my first score, they had three people helping me search, (mfadt was under D, godammit!) then, when I was listening to it, the girl at the counter was like, “danny elfman, huh?” i said, “yeah, the origianl demo for this is halloween is on here.” “I like the peewee theme. I have it play when my computer starts up.” at that time, I didn’t have the money, so I had them put it on hold for me. but as i was leaving the listening counter, I saw a guy standing next to his friend, (listening to limp bizkit.. euww) and I handed him the head phones and said, “you’ve got to hear this. it’s the this is halloween demo.” to my utter shock he replied, “oh, danny elfman? awesome!” and put the headphones on.
then there was the Spider-man score, (hidden in the electronica section? the only problem with my store is organization.) when we found it, the person helping me said, “oh. I didn’t know danny scored this! I was soooo sad when oingo boingo broke up!” another lovely conversation which ended in me purchasing spider-man AND nothing to fear.
there are more score stories, but I woke up too early to type this much!
lexi: oh come on, you know you like it.
I have been asked repeatedly if I knew that I was trying to buy the score. my local music store has actually taken to writing on a huge pink sticker that it is in fact the SCORE!.
THis is funniest to me, because as a snot nosed 9 year old I went to the CD store in search of the soundtrack to my favorite movie of the time (and still), Batman. The CDs at that time were still packaged to fit in the stalls for the records. Anyway, I enjoyed the dialogue parts of the album but I really wondered what happened to that cool movie music.
this was the first score that stuck out at me, even as a 9 year old. I wish the store clerk had said to my parents at the time, SCORE or SONGS?
I actually started playing Elfman in the store I worked in, but no one was converted. Can you believe I actually got into trouble because I wasn’t playing the latest N’Sync CD?!? The only time I regularly played Danny, and got away with it, was at Halloween! I would just make a compilation and have it repeat over and over again with some Oingo Boingo and Rasputina songs thrown in. I would also include classical piece like Dance Macabre by Saint-Saens. I always went over well (The three years I was there), and I actually sold a few Oingo Boingo CDs.
Before I worked there the manager got to know me and knew that I was a big film score fan so he looked out for certain things for me, so if there is something you can do, make sure you get to know the people in charge of your local CD shops, it might pay off in the long run, hey, it got me a job for 3 years.
Nat
If it’s any consolation, my older brother manages the Radio Shack in Lebanon, Oregon, and he has placed MFADT Vol 2 in the floor-display CD players. When customers want a demo of the CD player’s capabilities, he fires up Elfman!!
It’s funny: He told me he plays soft stuff like “Black Beauty” and “Edward Scissorhands” when little old men and women are shopping for players; but he cranks “Dead Presidents” when teen punks are looking for a hot boombox.
Either way, Elfman gets promoted to the masses. (Well, the “masses” in Lebanon, anyway.)
No one asks me that.
But, I guess after their first look at me, they figure it’s probably best they NOT speak to me at ALL. *laughs evilly*
-Em
“Whilst I was jabbering on about a ‘man who owned two fish’ in Hungarian, Rozalja finally sighed, took a shot of whiskey, and dragged me into her room.”
-Constable Johann Schmeiden, ‘Junges and Schilf’
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