...and i'd love to find out why. slightly drunk right now, forgive the typos and rambling.

practically every rpg out right now has its own epic soundtrack. hell, most games in general have epic soundtracks now. but there's one not-that-small problem with this:

no soundtracks released stateside.

sure, if you really wanted it that badly, you could go to GameMusic.com, but everything you buy there's in japanese. what i'd love to see is a soundtrack for shadow of the colossus in english sitting in an FYE somewhere at a reasonable price. but odds are this won't happen, so i'm fucked.

but why is that? there's enough gamers in the states that would love to get their greasy little hands on high-quality music, and not have the case booklet written in moonspeak. hell, there's stateside concerts with a full-on orchestra and everything just for vg music. so why no soundtracks?

i mean, hell, there's even the off-chance that a non-gamer would happen to pick it up, think "man, this music's pretty bitchin'," then go get the game itself. revenue for the publisher of the music, revenue for the game company. it's a double whammy, and it makes no sense for it not to be there.