It is not a secret anymore that FSM is facing hard times. It seems like the studios become more reserved towards projects like that and the public interested in their high quality releases is obviously very low. What do you think about this?

Nevertheless, there is some light: Lukas found a bunch of Towering Inferno copies, a FSM release which was already sold out for a long time. If you order 10 FSM CD's you receive a Towering Inferno for free. Now let's say he has 100 copies of TI that would be 100 x 199,99$ = 19999 plus moved inventory. It seems this deal is doing well and they are selling like crazy. Let's hope this will help them to overcome their crisis.

Even though i am a huge fan of William's music i did not participate, simply because i can't afford 10 CD's in one order (shipping costs and customs would kill me anyways).

It seems a damn shame it might go under.

Surely there must be composers and people willing to donate to save it.

And why just older scores? While they are some of the best, they need cash. They should try the Intrada method and release some newer score in a small amount so they can sell out quickly and make a profit.

I just noticed that there is a reply to this topic ;)

I think this would be against Luka's policy. The best way to support fsm is buying the cd's. Maybe he does not accept donations (yet).

fsm always releases more than one CD per month and it sometimes takes more than a year to produce a release. They concentrate on older scores because it is much easier to get the copyrights and if the score is older than 20 years they don't have to pay reuse fees anymore, which makes it much more economic to release older scores.

It is also not Luka's policy to produce albums that sell out quickly (or reducing the amount of copies to 2000 or 1000 units) because he wants the music to be available for everbody as long as possible.