Saturday, June 5, 2010

Mad themes

I absolutely _love_ it when I find shit out months or years too late because the people responsible for telling me don't tell me. As mentioned before, I bought the Ninety-Nine Nights OST from this shady website, which I won't mention because they don't deserve the plug. Obviously during registration they ask for an email address so they can send me promotional spam. Sure enough, I received a few of those over the years. Mysteriously they've always made mention of garbage like God Of War or Hitman, but omitted the fact that the likes of Blue Dragon, Street Fighter IV, and MadWorld's original soundtracks are available for purchase from the site as well. I felt the Blue Dragon OST reminded me a lot of Final Fantasy VI, and felt like the true Final Fantasy VII, but it wasn't enough to get me to buy the disc, for $30, but any Nobuo Uematsu is good Nobuo Uematsu, especially for 10-fucking-dollars! Similarly, I was _this_ close to buying the double disc set for Street Fighter IV, just the get the remix themes found on disc two. I got the Super IV LE, so that itch has been scratched, but only because I didn't know about this beforehand. It's also pretty interesting to see MadWorld up there, and while not my cup of tea, it's still a good and unique soundtrack composed of metal tinged, hardcore hip-hop instead of the formless orchestral shit you get from Halo-alikes found throughout that site. And if anyone has doubts as to the quality of the source of these tracks, my N3 mp3's are encoded at a variable bit rate and have katakana ID3 tags

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