Electronic Arts Offering Game Soundtrack Downloads - For a Price

[fitbabits]

The following little snippet of news (http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=2166) comes courtesy of Gamecloud (http://www.gamecloud.com):

Electronic Arts announced today that it has teamed up with Nettwerk Music Group for EA Recordings, a new venture that will give folks access to paid downloads of original soundtracks from EA games on services like iTunes, MSN, Yahoo Music, AOL Music, Rhapsody and others. Game sountracks that will be included in this new venture by the end of the year nclude [sic] music from all the previously released Medal of Honor and Command and Conquer titles to new games like Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
I quite fancy the early Medal of Honor soundtracks. Here's hoping it's not prohibitively expensive.

[LilAbner]

I had Rhapsody for a while- if you have it, it won't cost extra unless you want to burn the music. Otherwise this falls under the flat rate of about $10 per month.

[Heretic Machine]

I believe game soundtracks should be free with purchase, personally.

[Deadend]

I have a feeling that these may be prohibitavely expensive. Just look at the GTA soundtracks. $50+ for music on a $50 game. I'd rather just be able to extract the songs from the game.

[Xaerin]

Remember the good old days when hearing the game soundtracks was just a matter of sticking the cd in your cd player, skipping the first track and playing?
*sigh*

[KhitomerRouge]

I actually bought the soundtrack CD to "Medal of Honor: Frontline" direct from EA a while back and still love it. Of course, the composer (Michael Giacchino) has been doing a lot since then: the Call of Duty series, "Lost" and "Alias" on TV, last year's "The Incredibles" and the "Mission Impossible" movie coming out next year. I also wish we got the MGS soundtracks, because I've really dug what Harry Gregson-Williams did. Too bad that video game concert series got canceled.

I have a feeling that these may be prohibitavely expensive. Just look at the GTA soundtracks. $50+ for music on a $50 game. I'd rather just be able to extract the songs from the game. Of course, you were getting 7 or more CDs full of songs, so the price makes sense in that context. I assume the prices will be the same as the usual for tracks from whatever service you can get them from.

[Beelzebud]

jeez. Interplay used to let you download their game music for free..

Anyone want to tell me, with a straight face, that EA doesn't have the money in its coffers to offer what Interplay did.

[fitbabits]

jeez. Interplay used to let you download their game music for free..

Anyone want to tell me, with a straight face, that EA doesn't have the money in its coffers to offer what Interplay did.
*looks around while dodging tumbleweeds*

[XxSATANxX]

Uhm if I buy the game I get the music. Yes u can rip it out of the game. Now are they saying I can't do that? After finding out the paying customers get hacker rootkits installed my guess is the p2p music scene suddenly seems a whole lot safer.

[Sensei-X]

jeez. Interplay used to let you download their game music for free..

Anyone want to tell me, with a straight face, that EA doesn't have the money in its coffers to offer what Interplay did.

I'm sure they do, but then again if you brought that to their attention they'd probably point out the fact that Interplay went bankrupt. :D

[Nessus]

Damn, I was hoping it meant they were going to have Skinny Puppy songs in EA games.