Damn Fox Music!
In case you didn’t know, I am a bit of a fan of the Firefly TV series. Obsessive might be too strong a word, but only just. I got a yen some weeks back for the music from the series and promptly started searching around the web to see if such a thing as a soundtrack CD existed. Not only did I not find it, but I found plenty of evidence that Fox Music just wasn’t certain such a thing would sell.
This despite DVD sales of the series so strong that there is a new movie coming out in less than two weeks, with a built-in option fora full trilogy. I found an email petition pretty easily to try to persuade Fox Music that if they put out this CD, thousands of us Brown Coats would buy it.
I haven’t given it much thought in the intervening days since I submitted my email to the petition. Until, today, I got a big damned email from Fox Music. They have apparently heard our plea and there was a fresh link to download the soundtrack. Yay!
Or not so much.
There is no CD version available, yet. And the download version is Windows Media with full DRM such that I cannot play it on my Mac, even if I plunked my money down and then some. I normally advocate against piracy of digital media as I believe it erodes any above board discussion of copyright reform. But in this case, I am so angry at Fox that I am actively considering ways to purchase the soundtrack so I can strip the DRM and listen to it. I might even publish instructions for doing so, if I do, especially if no CD version ever becomes available.
Bastards.
