[Nick Zwar]

Not sure, but I would say a lot of it has to do with the simple fact that people enjoy looking forward to something and enjoy guessing. I mean, even children guess and wonder what they might receive for Christmas, so I suppose the speculation about future releases has a bit of that. There are people who buy a lot more soundtrack CDs than I do (though I have accumulated my share over the decades, no doubt), and so they just wonder what it is that ends up next in their collection. I remember back in the day you could subscribe to FSM CDs and get one every month, so people wondered and speculated “what might be next”. It doesn’t seem puzzling to me why people speculate about such things.