[Nick Zwar]

As far as film score collecting goes, two things were particularly different in the era “before Internet”.

1. You did not know whether what you sought even existed. There were some film scores I wanted and would have bought that just did not have an album release, like Jerry Fielding’s LAWMAN or James Horner’s WOLFEN. Some “quests” were futile and doomed from the start.

2. You never knew that to expect or come across when visiting a new record store.
I have still vivid memories of coming across albums that just stunned me, because that moment I saw them on a shelf and had them in my hand was literally the very same moment I found out they existed. So browsing record stores was a splendid pastime I enjoyed, whereas nowadays, it’s basically a waste of time.