Reply To: Let’s talk collections and listening habits!

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Nicolai P. Zwar
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I don’t have a catalog, but it’s a bit like these nested dolls.

Every Goldsmith score I have on LP I have also on CD, because I managed to upgrade all my LPs with CDs over the years.

Every score I have on CD I also have as digital files, since I have transferred all my CDs to ALAC anyway.

So my “core base” is always digital. Digital is 100%. (By digital I mean lossless CD quality or higher, no lossy files.)

So remaining question may be: how many Goldsmith scores do I have digital only? Not too many. I don’t have a list actually, but most Goldsmith scores I have on CD. There are a few, like Intrada’s BLACK PATCH, where I supported the Kickstarter but opted for the digital download only (I normally now opt to get both, but their first Kickstarter campaign made that double the cost, so I have that only in high-res from Intrada directly.). Also MATINEE, RANSOM, HIGH VELOCITY I have as digital downloads only (via Qobuz etc.). Not sure how many more there are, but not a lot. I could check.

Also, I’ve got Leigh Phillips restorations of Goldsmith’s earlier TV work on digital (through Kickstarter support etc., Qobuz, etc.), but also got the “General Electric” CD from Intrada later on. But some of it I only have as files, but that’s all TV stuff.

The rest I have at least on one CD, even if I have also other masters. For example, I have EXTREME PREJUDICE on LP, and on Intrada CD, but I also bought the 2021 Intrada high-res release from Qobuz when it was only like 7.49€ (it was later much more expensive and eventually withdrawn, though I don’t know why).

I do have multiple copies of several Goldsmith scores, still quite a few actually, despite even giving away or trading away quite a few of them over the years.

For example, I have just about every Jerry Goldsmith release of BASIC INSTINCT (not by intent, but it just happened to come out like that)… The Varèse Sarabande CD, the Prometheus CD, both 2CD releases by Quartet (even though they are 100% identical musically), and the LP release of Quartet, AND the digital download from Qobuz (which is also 100% identical to the 2CD releases).
I have CHINATOWN twice on CD and on LP, same with TWILIGHT ZONE – THE MOVIE… and more…