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How does Turntable Lab get away with selling so many bootlegs unnoticed?

So is this the most popular thread on this forum?

Someone posted them from another game soundtrack forum, I'm curious too. That release sounds amazing, you had my hopes up briefly, thought it was being pressed on vinyl!

That's what happens when you combine cherished properties, 'limited edition' and vinyl. A lot of money to be made!

Stock update: The Last of Us: 73 Battletoads: 1963 Banjo Kazooie: 1632 Perfect Dark: 2387

iam8bit, Moonshake, Data-Discs, Brave-Wave and Spacelab9 are all after the same market. I don't think the trend will last much longer as the same buyers aren't going to keep dishing out cash if they come out at this rate. 3000 copies seems excessive for those specific titles anyway, not even rearrangements.

I'm not a fellow American citizen.

Anywhere that non-US customers can buy a copy?

Mega Man is US $59.99 on eBay right now, isn't that a little too expensive? Someone here should just buy 20 in bulk and sell them for $5 extra, I'd buy one.....

Is Pokemon really happening? Considering the scale and protection The Pokemon Company have over the IP It seems unlikely.

Battletoads, The Last of Us AND Street Fighter II incoming!?

If anyone can pick up an extra copy please PM me, I'm good for it. EDIT: Also there's going to be a Last of Us release from Mondo at SDCC, right?

I take that back, sorry. So a company denied him a specific license yet he decided to go forward with it, that is extremely is risky, no?

It's an interesting story, kudos to him. He should have attempted licensing the music to begin with, it would have saved him the trouble of donating to charity/composers to prove his legitimacy, getting into rows with others, revealing undisclosed e-mails doesn't go down well either. Hopefully the Ninja Gaiden cover uses something official and awesome (maybe not Spacelab's Mega Man), I can understand fan-art on bootleg unofficial releases but when it's the real deal it should look legit, perhaps use the official box art like the upcoming Streets of Rage release.

So did you get a refund?

I respect Spacelab's decision, don't see why so many members are out to complain about the design choice, they'll most likely be rushing out to buy it anyway. Spacelab is being as respectful to the franchise and fans as they can, by re-imagining the cover there's an even bigger risk of upsetting fans for altering the image. No matter what they decide someone on this forum will find something to moan about, people trying to do nice things, loving fans, lol.

Without getting too deep into it, there are many different factors. When it's about international licenses (such as this release) they is usually a guideline of assets that they can use to accompany the ones dealing with the license. It would be generally easier for Capcom, the images are upscalable so they are versitile, and they follow strict guidelines as to how to use them. What Spacelab is doing is trying to cooperate with the fans and Capcom, it's basically voting for which assets they will use for the release from the ones given to them by Capcom. Take a look at Capcom's official store and at the Megaman section, it's all very much the same. The anime-style cover soundtracks are actually official assets, even Nintendo had to use them for certain Megaman DLC promotions. Japan has had many original custom cover designs for their remix albums, I don't know how that works but I believe it involves Capcom's approval and a professional designer, perhaps an in-house Capcom artist.

A lot of the time companies are only allowed to use select images from their license and have to work from them. Even a lot of the official Megaman merch isn't creativly exciting as the product's image can't be changed. So it could be down to what Capcom haven given Spacelab to work with.

Were you able to read up on the condition easily? Even Amazon resellers in the States can be risky if you want un-scratched CDs and records that don't skip. There are some soundtracks I'm after so I might give them a shot!

That's great, thanks for going the extra mile for the fans! So does that mean there are 3 releases? The picture disc, the colored vinyl and the standard vinyl in an edition of how many?

The forum has been talking about this for a long time Spacelab!

What does that mean?

Who here wants to buy a Moonshake Zelda vinyl? I am selling mine, message me.

Wow you finally got it, and an official one at that, nice!

Will there be a vinyl release on their Kickstarter?