Over the past couple of months I have not had much time to write articles here at OSV. Although I haven’t been writing about game music I have been engaged with many collectors of game music through a group on Facebook called Video Game Soundtrack Collectors. The group was created in November 2018, and has grown to over 160 members who have been sharing images of their video game music collections.
Included amongst the Facebook group are OSV alumni and members of The Materia Collective who are very passionate collectors. For me, being a member of this group has allowed me to discuss and share details of my favorite anime and game soundtracks with fellow enthusiasts. I’ve also helped others track down some items, and was at long last able to acquire a CD I’d been seeking for years with a help of a member living in Japan. You may recall I wrote about the album Passion released by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra in an article titled Lost in Time: The Chrono Cross Arranged Album. After posting about my desire to own this album, a group member located it and it’s now a treasured CD in my collection.
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Although I’m not a big fan of Facebook as a platform, I am a member of the group under an alias account. If you are a video game soundtrack collector, on CD, vinyl or have a love of game music I encourage you to check out this group. You can access the group as long as you have a Facebook account at the link below, you’ll be prompted with a couple questions prior to being granted access: What is your favorite game soundtrack, and what is your more sought after game soundtrack?
Facebook Group Link: Video Game Soundtrack Collectors
I hope to see you there. Are you a member of another soundtrack collectors group? Please tell us about it!
Tags: Anime, CD, Community, Facebook, Materia Collective, Video Game Soundtrack Collectors, Vinyl
This is cool af! Checking this out for sure!
I didn’t know about this group, will check it out. I am not a game soundtracks collector, by any means. I have….exactly 5 videogame music LPs and those are my only LPs. Then I have some “inherited” LP albums with Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Modern Talking etc, but those are not really mine. But I definitelly am videogame music lover. The other place that I would recomend checking out is a place called http://videogamegrooves.com which is a blog and podcast which their own creators like to describe as “a podcast about a topic that is niche as Friedrich Nietzsche…about videogames music on vinyl”. I recomend giving them a try, it is lovely. And yes, they are the reason I bought my first record even before I had a player to play it on. I blame them 🙂