I happened to be in FYE the other day (bought a West Side Story CD) and there, on the rack by the register, was a CD of the Glee cast singing “Rocky Horror”.
The show hasn’t even aired yet.
Shouldn’t you have to wait until the show airs before you can buy all the music? What is the point of watching the show if you already own the music? (yes, I know…storyline, costumes, visuals…yeah, yeah).
It just seemed like the whole show is going to be anti-climatic. I’ve already seen a bunch of clips. Can’t anybody wait for anything anymore?
I could see it being an issue if Glee ever did anything original, but what’s the harm of making CDs available of a bunch of songs everybody already knows? If listening to Glee didn’t make my ears bleed, and if I were a big fan of RHPS, I would totally buy the CD to listen to, especially during October.
Given the fact that Glee only misappropriates other music for their purpose, I’m not even sure how this question applies. Does it only count if you have that cast recording? I mean, what’s the point of watching Glee at all if you could just watch RHPS? Because people still find pleasure in it.
Maybe I’m not expressing myself well. It just seems odd to have the soundtrack out before the show airs. They make you wait to buy the DVD until after the movie comes out. I guess it is a great a Halloween item and they want to sell as many as possible before then, but it just bothers me for some reason.
Same thing with getting the text of the President’s speech before he gives it. Just once I’d like to see him release one text of the speech, and then say something totally and drastically different during the actual speech. Just once.
You might compare it to a movie soundtrack. Those are available before a movie is released as a form of marketing. The music does not make the movie, neither does owning the CD reveal any plot points. What it does do is make you more excited about watching the movie.
I would imagine that’s what they are trying to do with this episode of Glee. They are really pushing the marketing for this particular episode. Releasing the CD early would go right along with that heavy marketing push.
Actually, sometimes it does, if you read the liner notes. I’ll never do that again, after looking at the back cover of the Phantom Menace soundtrack at the mall before the movie came out and reading Qui-Gon’s Noble End .
I wonder
1- Why they cast Mercedes as Frankenfurter when they’ve got Kurt, Mike Chang, Artie, and others
2- Why on Mercedes’ big number they kept the word transvestite but lost transsexual.
I actually like Glee but never cared about RHPS. I have other plans that night so it’s moot. I have noticed that any time they push the musical theme too much, the show isn’t any good.
I was under the impression that merely knowing what the show was going to be about was the spoiler. It’s easy to stumble on a CD while looking for something else.
People who expect network marketing teams to respect their right to not even know what an episode is going to be about need to get the hell over themselves.
You cash in on hype *before *the delivery, not just after. That way, if the episode is a dud, they’ve already sold a load of CDs. If the episode is fantastic, they’ll only sell more. There’s no strategy in waiting.
This happens all the time with movies and their tie-in comic books, novelizations, and even toys. For instance, The Phantom Menace comic - which had all the major plot points frame-for-frame - was out before you could see the movie.
