Give Your Ears A Treat With The Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Vinyl Soundtrack

When is the DLC coming for this month? New character, new world, I want to jump back in. MARIO + RABBIDS: KINGDOM BATTLE was probably my personal number 1 fave game of 2017.

@Pod Cartridges are the gamer's vinyl, and also vinyl is the gamer's vinyl!

This would be fantastic if I

1.) were into vinyls
2.) had a record player
3.) didn't already buy the soundtrack on iTunes

@chardir
Haha, it all comes together!

Nice!! I definitely need this.

@MH4
Yeah it’s for everybody else 🙂
If you haven’t heard vinyl before you should try it sometime. It’s beautiful.

I don't know much about vinyl but since most modern music is digitally mastered isn't it a bit pointless to get this on vinyl. It would sound better on a CD.

All vinyl collectors will tell you it's not just the vinyl.... 30 quid- an absolute steal.

@arrmixer I totally would get this, but if I got this, I'd get a record player, and then start I'd collect vinyls, and believe me, I collect enough as it is (amiibo, Pops!, Pixel Pals, etc.). 😅

@MH4
Yeah I know the feeling that’s why I don’t even get one of each of the items you mentioned 😅. I actually have a very small collection of amiibos love the concept but keeping up with the new ones became tooo much of a challenge for me. Kudos to those who actually have the whole set. My last amiibo was the mechanical beast of BOTW.

@arrmixer I don't have the whole set, but my grand total is 134(? Somewhere around 130).

Good job finding the Guardian! They're actually pretty hard to find.

@MH4 thanks man! I’m glad i actually preordered that one. The guardian and the big Yoshi’s are my pride and joys.
130 is still an impressive collection I think I’m at around 30ish. Good luck with your collection may it keep grounding exponentially 😀.

@arrmixer Thanks very much! 😊

@Drackmage : That's not true at all. The bit rate of CDs is quite low, so vinyls ought to always sound better than a CD, regardless of whether they have been mastered from an analogue or a digital source (unless a CD is converted to vinyl, which defeats the purpose entirely). My point is that vinyl should not have been resurrected as a means of providing a higher quality alternative, but rather, we should be using DVDs or Blu-rays instead (and half-hearted attempts on both formats had been made in the past and both have failed miserably).

Generally, when a film or a piece of music is completed, a digitised "master" is produced, which is then used as a basis for mass production, whether that be on a CD, vinyl record, or in the case of films, DVD or Blu-ray disc. If the releases are simultaneous, then it would be safe to assume that the film/album is sourced from an identical master, which has then been downgraded to any of the previously mentioned consumer formats.

I argued earlier in the forums that vinyl is an obsolete format (or at least it should be) and exists more so to appease hobbyists as opposed to purists. In an ideal world, all music and film should be recorded and mastered via analogue means for prosperity, but while the overwhelming majority of film and audio nowadays is produced and mastered digitally, it would make more sense to issue Blu-ray discs (or similar) with lossless audio rather than vinyls where there will be a degree of degradation from the transition from a digital source to an analogue format.

There have been attempts to provide lossless audio on optical disc formats, but because Blu-ray specifications do not accommodate audio only discs, the only existing audio Blu-rays are basically video discs with no video content (apart from the menus and so on), which I feel was extremely short-sighted of the Blu-ray Disc Association as the format could have been used to supersede both CDs and DVDs simultaneously. For this reason, Blu-ray audio discs were an extremely short-lived novelty as they could only be played on standard Blu-ray players and would require a television and/or audio set-up, which is neither practical nor convenient as a means of listening to music.

There is so much that could have been done differently, but I would be happy to settle for lossless digital downloads of music, but unfortunately almost nobody affords the general consumer the option. Most online marketplaces provide digital downloads of music at a fraction of the quality of CD, let alone superior formats, because the general consumer simply doesn't care, just as how the significantly inferior DVD continues to outsell Blu-ray discs, even in age of Ultra HD TVs... -.-

@sillygostly Thank you for correcting me. Your comment is very informative for I don't know very much about this subject.