Well that's just fraking great
So after a few months of forgetfulness, I finally decided to get the Battlestar Galactica Season 4 soundtrack off of Amazon. The only reason I hadn’t done so sooner was because the soundtrack isn’t available to legally download anywhere. I mean, what geek wants to download a soundtrack?
I give up and place my order with Amazon. The CD ships, and after an excessively long wait, finally arrives today, all shoved in my mailbox, care of a very bent-up UPS envelope.
Gleefully, I run upstairs to import the CD into my iTunes (who still uses a CD player?).
Disk one goes in and the import commences. Hooray! Import completes and it’s off to disk two!
I shove it in the CD slot, noting, as always, the horrible sound the MacBook Pro’s DVD drive makes when you feed it a disc.
And nothing. It just churns and churns and churns before it spits it out.
By this point, I’m raging. Up until now, every piece of music I’ve ever wanted has been only a few clicks away on iTunes or Amazon. For the first time in several years, I had to order a CD.
Discouraged, I looked to see who the publisher was. “La La Land Records”. A little googling led me to their website.
“Hey look, I found the 90’s!”
The entire site reeks of a mom and pop operation, just like the local sci fi bookstore of yesteryear. A disclaimer in the footer states: “WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.” There is an order form for paying by check or money order. This is the same company that published the soundtracks for every season of Battlestar Galactica, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eureka and Farscape. Their support options consist of their street address and a generic info@ email address.
I could call them up and complain that the disc doesn’t work and wait while they send me a new one, or I could download it illegally. Which I just did while I was writing this article*. La La Land Records needs to get with the times and release their catalog on iTunes, if not Amazon’s MP3 store. The music of Battlestar Galactica is a work of art that many people only hear once or twice because the music itself is such a pain in the ass to get ahold of.
*And it’s totally justified since I already gave them my money.
