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Transformer World 2005 is hosting multiple reports that Transformers: The Score, which went on sale today, is selling out all over the place.

Among the accounts…

– “Checked three stores today. Best Buy – Got in several copies, set them out before opening, sold out in less than an hour. This from a hardcore Transformers fan who works there. She didn’t even get her copy, as they were gone before she got to work. Target – They aren’t even in their computers according to the cat I talked to. Not sure if that’s legit or not. FYE – Got in several copies, sold out before eleven (when I was there).”

– “If you haven’t yet, try the “mega-bookstores”. Found the last copy at a local Borders. Didn’t check Barnes and Noble or a Books-A-Million, but I assume they might be carrying it. At the very least, check a Borders

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Just a friendly reminder that today, October 9th 2007, is the day that Transformers: The Score, the CD of Steve Jablonsky’s beautiful orchestral soundtrack from the movie Transformers, goes on sale.

I had hoped to have photos of it on the sales rack, but the Wal-Mart here in Reidsville doesn’t have it yet (they can be slow in putting new music and DVDs out anyway). But some reports have come in from Georgia, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Texas that the CD has been spotted at various Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target and Fye stores. So, it’s out there. And it’s also on sale via iTunes as a digital download. I’m still hoping that everyone will buy the physical CD though ‘cuz it’s a wonderful thing to hold and behold.

I won’t be completely satisfied until I see it with my own two eyes and purchase a couple and see ...

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The doorbell rang just after 11 this morning.

Usually that means it’s Dad come by for a visit, ‘cuz he’s the only person who ever rings the doorbell: everyone else just knocks. So I took a looksee out the peephole to see if it was him.

It wasn’t. It was a lady in a FedEx uniform holding a package.

I thought that it must be something Lisa had ordered, because she’s all the time getting books and other stuff for her music classes. Although I had been told that something was coming to me via FedEx, but I wasn’t expecting that particular package until sometime next week. So I signed the lil’ computer pad thingy and the nice FedEx lady handed me the package and the first thing that I noticed is that it was addressed to “Chris Knight”.

The second thing that I noticed is that it was sent ...

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It arrived via FedEx today!

It’s not out in stores until this coming Tuesday!

It’s (GASP!) a legitimate copy!

It’s even signed by the composer!

I’m listening to it right now!

It sounds glorious!

And there is something very very cool coming soon regarding this, that is going to be for a good cause, that you are going to have the opportunity to take part in.

Review coming soon....

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Slashdot is reporting that the head lawyer for Sony BMG is claiming that we should not be allowed to copy the tracks from CDs that we buy to our personal MP3 players. Jennifer Pariser says that we should be buying multiple copies of a CD: one for each device that we intend to play it on.

Ars Technica has more on the story, which came from testimony in a court case involving music companies.

As someone on the Slashdot thread has already noted: Sony thinks that it’s wrong for us to use CDs on more than one device that we own, but Sony also doesn’t have a problem with installing malicious software on our computers without our knowing about it.

By the way, my wife and I each own an MP3 player. Would this mean that we should be compelled to purchase three CDs: one for each player ...

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30-second snippets from each track on Transformers: The Score are now on the CD’s product page at Wal-Mart’s website.

Just going by these clips, this album sounds amazing. Easily many orders of magnitude better than anything from the score that has wound up online (with “official releases” like Burger King’s posting of the Decepticons theme on its website in mind). And there are now only six days left before it comes out!

I was thinking the other day: wouldn’t it be incredibly cool if sometime or another, that there could be a live concert performance of the Transformers score? A few years ago Lisa and one of her college friends and I went to Atlanta to hear Howard Shore himself conduct a concert of his music from The Lord of the Rings. It was a positively epic experience: I will never forget listening to the Rohan theme, ...

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No joke: over the past 3 months my wife Lisa has been gone from home for roughly a month. All on trips to places where she’s been learning how to enhance her abilities as a music teacher. This past week she went to the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching out in Cullowhee (right across the road from Western Carolina University) to learn about the banjo and its history: from its origins in Africa to its adoption as a traditional Appalachian folk instrument.

Look! Lisa even posted about it on her blog!

She had a lot of fun. And she learned a lot about the banjo and how to apply it to her classes. Not to mention that she brought home a wazoo-load of CDs from bluegrass groups that came to the seminar like Carolina Chocolate Drops and Balsam Range.

In spite of its location, Lisa informs ...

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Rory McIlvain, a filmmaker in California, sent me word tonight about My Show Planet, a YouTube-ish site for Christian independent filmmakers and musicians to showcase their work. The site is still in its very early stages, but I think it shows quite a lot of promise. Here’s wishing Rory all the best in this new endeavor and I’ll definitely be visiting on a regular basis (and will try to contribute something too :-)....

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