Have you ever purchased a soundtrack because you loved the music but it wasn't at all what you expected?

Question

I loved the rock instrumentals in 300 so I went out and bought the soundtrack. Listened to the whole thing from beginning to end and I was surprised that the soundtrack had completely different music than the movie itself. That is the first and only time that has ever happened in my experience.

Answer 1

I find it disturbing when a song is in a movie, it is played during a pivotal scene, and even features scenes from the film in it's music video, but the song does not end up on the soundtrack album. Twice I have bought soundtracks without reading the song list first and been dissappointed. Recently with The Devil Wears Prada soundtrack (missing KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See") and many years ago when I bought the A League of their Own soundtrack (missing Madonna's "This used to be our Playground")

Answer 2

I went out and purchased a soundtrack because there were 3 songs that I loved in the movie. Not a single one of them was on the soundtrack, there was only 1 song on the whole 16 tracks cd that I liked. But that song was like a year old and played out on the radio so I did not want to hear it anymore anyway.
I had to special order soundtrack and pay full price plus shipping and handling.

Answer 3

Often the soundtrack of a movie only samples certain sections of a song for that movie. So that the whole song sounds very different.

Soundtracks are a way of squeezing a little extra cash out of a movie. Often now they have 2 or 3 songs during the credits, so they can claim that they are on the sound track.

I have seen this on a few occasions. Stick to downloading pirated music so the recording music industry will be destroyed and music industry will blossom.