So, uh, Bungie officially released Music of the Spheres today. All you have to do is… preorder a $100 $99 The Music of Destiny, Volume 1 vinyl box set. With the pre-order, you get MP3, Apple Lossless, and FLAC versions of the entire thing.

I don't own a record player, but the lossless audio is glorious. Also, I'm a little miffed that you can't get MotS by itself in digital form. Maybe at a later date?

Well there goes that money.

Well there goes that money.

No joke!

$100 and not even an exclusive emblem? C’mon Bungo! :-P

I won't be buying that. They should release it as a stand alone as well. That or I'm just fine with the internet doing its thing by making sure that anyone who wants it can get it from the original release in December without paying Bungie. $100. Give me a break.

It's good to be here. 3 years ago when I started many people had no idea what MOTS was and a release was stuff of myth and legend; a suite of music by the Halo guys and Sir Paul McCartney. Now, after years of work, it's out in the wild officially.

I'm happy to announce that myself and "The Spheres Team" have some MotS content planned. We're doing the entire original plan, with the only thing gone being sheet music. I'm a little sad people have to wait to read the poetry, but not surprised. Expect the three way collaboration between the people who leaked it, Planet Destiny, and My name is Byf soon(ish)! Also expect a little something special much later down the line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnKFxFxDCRs

There’s a stand-alone version. It’s just very very rare!

Hey man, one of those Vinyls in that quality is like 35 bucks. 3 for 100 and a digital download is quite solid IMO.

Not to mention its for a good cause anyway.

I won't be buying that. They should release it as a stand alone as well. That or I'm just fine with the internet doing its thing by making sure that anyone who wants it can get it from the original release in December without paying Bungie. $100. Give me a break.

On the flip side, profits go to charity?

as i said, Vinyls are not cheap to make. esp not at that quality. 100 for all that you get is a steal imo.

Hoping there are other unannounced editions...

I won't be buying that. They should release it as a stand alone as well. That or I'm just fine with the internet doing its thing by making sure that anyone who wants it can get it from the original release in December without paying Bungie. $100. Give me a break.

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It's not his. That's one of the 100 CDs Marty made in Jan 2013.

I don't think there are.

It's not his. That's one of the 100 CDs Marty made in Jan 2013.

It's just fun to jab at Cody whenever we can. ;)

Hey man, one of those Vinyls in that quality is like 35 bucks. 3 for 100 and a digital download is quite solid IMO.

I can accept that. What about the people who don't own record players? Granted, they are having a bit of a resurgence, but not enough to justify this being the only distribution method. I sure hope they are planning a wider release once these sell out and the charity money has all gotten where it needs to go.

Hey man, one of those Vinyls in that quality is like 35 bucks. 3 for 100 and a digital download is quite solid IMO.

I can accept that. What about the people who don't own record players? Granted, they are having a bit of a resurgence, but not enough to justify this being the only distribution method. I sure hope they are planning a wider release once these sell out and the charity money has all gotten where it needs to go.

Collector item or reselling? It comes with the digital copies and they're individually numbered...so it's not like there's an abundance of them.

I'm not contesting the value of what's being obtained here. I'm contesting the notion that this is the only "legit" way to get Music of the Spheres, which is for $100 (and vinyl). No thanks. Also, proceeds of every stand-alone Music of the Spheres sale could go to charity if they really wanted it to. Hopefully they have something else planned.

Whilst I do not know for certain that this is it, I think it is.

I still want to thank you again for everything you did. It's been super appreciated!

Hey man, like I said on twitter, someone had to do it. I was just the person who had the time first. I would like to say a few things though.

Christmas Day 2017 was the best day of my life. I spent the entire day watching my thread of my life's work climb up to like page 2 of r/ALL and reading thousands of comments about how much people loved it. I will never forget that day.

The friendships I've made with Marty and the composers are also something I could never forget. I do own quite a few things I think people will enjoy. Maybe someday we'll see a release of the video games live score for The Union, so aspiring composers can study it. I doubt I'd do that myself for many, many years however.

But it means a lot to me that I was able to help so many people hear this music. When I started I was about 15 and was just getting to a place to where I couldn't go to school. The things bullies said to me there really brought me down for a very long time, I'm still getting over it. But it's people like you, messages like that, that remind me if only for a moment that I'm more than what they said I was. I'm not some "autistic fuck". I actually AM autistic and i can say with 100% confidence I wouldn't have succeeded without that autism. This project was 99% driven by OCD and obsession. If my brain didn't work like this, nothing would have happened.

Thank you. <3

This is a nice gesture. Bungie didn't have to do this, and I appreciate their decision to acknowledge the demand for this album.

However...

I really don't want to be a Negative Nancy about this, but why does this release have to take the form of a limited-availability product, and why is it only available as part of a $100 bundle with other stuff that customers might not necessarily want? (Particularly given that some of it is previously-released content.) I understand that the vinyl release is expensive and that demand for something like that is hard to gauge, so the limited availability of that aspect doesn't bother me. However, I really don't understand why there can't be a digital download of the album for a more affordable price that normal people can buy and enjoy.

I've already placed my order for this, but not everyone has $100 of disposable income to blow on one album... and let's be honest, anyone who is buying this is buying it for Music of the Spheres, not for "the collection" or whatever. The Destiny OST is previously-released content.

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The price for such a package is more than reasonable but I agree, there ought to be a digital-only purchase option.

Charity is dumb.

I'll pay $60 for 6 LP records. That's it.

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That looks really cool. Thanks for posting. I love Destiny the game, but one way I'd characterize my disappointment with it is that it fails to live up to the beauty and mystery evoked by MotS.

Thanks for the info! :D

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