music/exemplars/buy/indie_drm_free.json
{
"schema": "exemplar-purchase-routes/v1",
"cluster": "INDIE / DRM-FREE / SELF-PUBLISHED-COMPOSER",
"researched": "2026-08-05",
"consumer": "build/audio/exemplars/CORPUS.json -> D:/audio/exemplars/ -> the rung-1 measurement rig",
"operative_axis": "DOES THIS YIELD AN AUDIO FILE ON DISK. Route A (DRM-free purchase yielding FLAC/WAV/MP3) is the gold; streaming is named as streaming and never dressed up as a purchase.",
"verification_method": "Every url in this file was fetched live on 2026-08-05 and the field url_verified records what was actually seen. Two rows carry url_verified:false and say so explicitly rather than shipping a fabricated deep link.",
"cluster_summary": {
"albums": 12,
"route_A": 11,
"route_B": 0,
"route_C": 0,
"route_D": 1,
"corpus_tracks_covered": 16,
"total_cost_all_route_A_primary": "approx $89 USD if every primary route is bought at list; approx $75 if the Transistor Steam sale ($1.99, ends Aug 10) is used instead of Bandcamp and the free Portal 2 route replaces the $20 Collectors Edition"
},
"albums": [
{
"album": "UNDERTALE Soundtrack",
"publisher": "Toby Fox (self-published)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_045 MEGALOVANIA",
"EX_072 Hopes and Dreams",
"EX_086 Undertale"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (composer's own account)",
"url": "https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/undertale-soundtrack",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Page renders: artist Toby Fox, 101 tracks, released September 15, 2015, price string exactly '$9.99 USD or more'. Track 71 'Undertale' visible. The page truncates at track 77 ('tracks past 77 hidden'), so MEGALOVANIA (t.100) and Hopes and Dreams (t.87) sit in the hidden tail — the 101-track count is stated on the page and both are standard members of this release.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "9.99 (name-your-price floor; pay more if desired)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "THE EASIEST WIN IN THE WHOLE CORPUS. One purchase clears three corpus rows across two classes (BATTLE + BOSS + MELANCHOLIC). Buy the FLAC. ALTERNATE ROUTE (flag — Josh may already own it): Steam DLC 'UNDERTALE Soundtrack', app 391570, https://store.steampowered.com/app/391570/UNDERTALE_Soundtrack/ , verified 2026-08-05 at $9.99 with no discount — but it is 320kbps MP3 ONLY and it requires the base game Undertale on the same Steam account. If Josh already owns Undertale + the OST DLC, the MP3s are already on disk at steamapps/common/Undertale/UNDERTALE Soundtrack/. Bandcamp is still the better rig input because FLAC is lossless and the rig measures spectral/complexity features that lossy encoding perturbs.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Hollow Knight (Original Soundtrack)",
"publisher": "Christopher Larkin (self-published)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_025 Greenpath",
"EX_073 Sealed Vessel"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (composer's own account)",
"url": "https://christopherlarkin.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-knight-original-soundtrack",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Artist Christopher Larkin, 26 tracks, released February 10, 2017, price string exactly '$9.99 USD or more'. Track 5 'Greenpath' (3:37) and track 24 'Sealed Vessel' (5:45) both confirmed present in the rendered tracklist.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "9.99 (name-your-price floor)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "Both corpus rows are on this one album — no second purchase needed. ALTERNATE ROUTE (flag — Josh may already own it): Steam DLC 'Hollow Knight - Official Soundtrack', app 598190, https://store.steampowered.com/app/598190/Hollow_Knight__Official_Soundtrack/ , verified 2026-08-05 at $9.99. The Steam page does not name its formats but declares '156 MB' plus 'Additional 372 MB available space' for high-quality audio, i.e. a lossy tier and a lossless tier. Same price as Bandcamp with less certainty about format, so Bandcamp wins on the operative axis. Larkin also sells 'Hollow Knight: Gods & Nightmares' and the Silksong OST on the same account — not needed for the current corpus, but he is the exemplar of a composer selling direct, and his catalogue is the natural place to widen the BOSS class later.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Minecraft - Volume Alpha",
"publisher": "C418 / Daniel Rosenfeld (self-published; physical via Ghostly International)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_017 Sweden",
"EX_018 Subwoofer Lullaby"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (composer's own account)",
"url": "https://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. 24 tracks, released March 4, 2011, digital price string '$6 USD or more'. Track 3 'Subwoofer Lullaby' (3:28) and track 18 'Sweden' (3:35) both confirmed present.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "6.00 (name-your-price floor)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "Cheapest route-A album in the cluster and it clears two EXPLORATION rows. Both corpus tracks are on Volume Alpha — Volume Beta is NOT required. Physical options seen on the same page if wanted: CD $14, green vinyl repress $28, cassette box set with Volume Beta $31. Minecraft has no Steam presence, so there is no bundled-DLC path here; Bandcamp is the route.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Bastion: Original Soundtrack",
"publisher": "Supergiant Games / Darren Korb (self-published)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_115 Setting Sail, Coming Home"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (studio's own account)",
"url": "https://supergiantgames.bandcamp.com/album/bastion-original-soundtrack",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Artist Darren Korb, 22 tracks, released August 5, 2011, price string exactly '$9.99 USD or more'. The corpus track appears as track 21 'Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme)'.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg — page offers 24-bit/44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "9.99 (name-your-price floor)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "24-bit is offered here, which is a slightly richer rig input than the usual 16-bit Bandcamp master. Note the exact title carries an '(End Theme)' suffix the corpus row omits — same cue, no ambiguity. ALTERNATE ROUTE (flag — Josh may already own it): Steam DLC 'Bastion: Original Soundtrack', app 107104, https://store.steampowered.com/app/107104/Bastion_Original_Soundtrack/ , verified 2026-08-05 at $9.99, and the Steam description states plainly that it delivers 'music by Darren Korb in MP3 format' into the Bastion folder in the Steam directory. MP3-only, same price — Bandcamp wins.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Transistor: Original Soundtrack",
"publisher": "Supergiant Games / Darren Korb (self-published)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_116 Way in the Ghost — SEE THE DATA DEFECT NOTE"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (studio's own account)",
"url": "https://supergiantgames.bandcamp.com/album/transistor-original-soundtrack",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Artist Darren Korb, 24 tracks, released May 20, 2014, price string exactly '$9.99 USD or more'. First eight tracks read: Old Friends, Stained Glass, Forecast, The Spine, Coasting, Vanishing Point, Traces, Water Wall.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "9.99 (name-your-price floor)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "DATA DEFECT FOUND — REPORT TO THE CORPUS OWNER, DO NOT SILENTLY EDIT. Corpus row EX_116 names 'Way in the Ghost' as a Transistor track by Darren Korb. It is not one. I fetched the full tracklist of BOTH Supergiant releases and neither contains any track with 'Ghost' or 'Way' in the title: the OST is the 24 tracks above (Old Friends / Stained Glass / Forecast / The Spine / Coasting / Vanishing Point / Traces / Water Wall / Cut Apart / In Circles / Gold Leaf / Heightmap / Dormant / Apex Beat / Gateless / Sandbox / We All Become / Interlace / Tangent / Signals / Impossible / Blank Canvas / Paper Boats / She Shines), and the Extended is 25 hummed/instrumental alternates plus three vowel-stripped bonus cuts. RECOMMENDATION (not a ruling): EX_116 sits in CREDITS_TRIUMPH, and Transistor's credits/triumph cue is 'We All Become' (with 'Paper Boats' as the runner-up). Buying this album makes the question moot — whichever cue Josh meant is inside it. ALTERNATE ROUTE AND A GENUINE BARGAIN (flag — Josh may already own it): Steam 'Transistor: Original Soundtrack', app 299240, https://store.steampowered.com/app/299240/Transistor_Original_Soundtrack/ , verified 2026-08-05 at $1.99 (80% off $9.99, promotion ends August 10) AND it bundles the Extended edition in the same purchase. It requires the base Transistor game on the account. Steam does not state its formats; Bandcamp's FLAC is the better rig input, but $1.99 for OST+Extended is worth taking as well if he owns the game.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "ULTRAKILL: INFINITE HYPERDEATH (Act I soundtrack)",
"publisher": "Heaven Pierce Her / Hakita (self-published, New Blood Interactive)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_055 The Cyber Grind"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (composer's own account)",
"url": "https://heavenpierceher.bandcamp.com/album/ultrakill-infinite-hyperdeath",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. 23 tracks, released September 11, 2020, digital price shown as €3.99 EUR. Track 22 is 'Meganeko - The Cyber Grind' (4:30), credited to Meganeko rather than Hakita, exactly matching the corpus attribution.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "approx 4.30 (listed in EUR: €3.99 — Bandcamp charges in the seller's currency, so the card is billed in euros and the USD figure moves with the rate)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "There is NO ULTRAKILL soundtrack DLC on Steam — I checked the game's DLC page (app 1229490) and the only entries are community workshop items, not an official OST product. Bandcamp is the route. The album page's own credits note that The Cyber Grind is 'available seperately for free' on Meganeko's SoundCloud — that is STREAMING (route C) and is not a file-on-disk route, so buy the album. Heaven Pierce Her carries nine ULTRAKILL albums in total (Prelude, INFINITE HYPERDEATH, CHAOS/ORDER, DEEP BLUE, IMPERFECT HATRED, PANDEMONIUM/WAR, VIOLENCE, ENCORES I, FRAUD) — the cheapest deep bench in the corpus if the BATTLE class ever needs widening.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Calling All Dawns (contains the Grammy-winning Baba Yetu)",
"publisher": "Christopher Tin / Universal Music Classics (composer-driven release)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_013 Baba Yetu"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Qobuz (US storefront)",
"url": "https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/calling-all-dawns-christopher-tin/pb8vh7qrkxcwb",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Album 'Calling All Dawns' by Christopher Tin, released October 1, 2009 on Universal Music Classics, 12 tracks / 46 minutes. 'Baba Yetu' is track 1 (3:29). Price from $15.09 USD, 16-bit/44.1kHz, formats offered FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF. Qobuz states on the page that 'The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit' — i.e. DRM-free.",
"format": "FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "15.09",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "VERSION MATTERS HERE — pick deliberately. Two different recordings of Baba Yetu exist: (1) the ORIGINAL 2005 Civilization IV title cue, sung by Ron Ragin with the Stanford Talisman; (2) the 2009 Calling All Dawns re-recording with the Soweto Gospel Choir, which is the Grammy winner and the version most people mean. Qobuz sells version 2 lossless and DRM-free — recommended, because it is the fuller orchestral/choral reading and the better formula-card subject. FOR VERSION 1: there is no standalone commercial release; the original shipped on a bonus CD with the boxed game and, per multiple community sources, also lives inside the installed game as an ordinary MP3 (reported filename OpeningMenu.mp3). Sid Meier's Civilization IV on Steam, https://store.steampowered.com/app/3900/ , verified 2026-08-05 at $19.99 with NO soundtrack DLC listed. I could not verify the in-install MP3 claim myself — treat it as REPORTED, NOT VERIFIED, and if Josh already owns Civ IV, checking the install folder costs nothing. Two other purchase paths appear on Christopher Tin's own album page and are worth knowing: iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/calling-all-dawns/1526759916 (fetched 2026-08-05 — the album page loads and confirms title/artist/12 tracks and says 'Also available in the iTunes Store', but Apple shows no price to an anonymous fetch, so the price is UNVERIFIED; an iTunes purchase yields DRM-free 256kbps AAC) and Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YVYNFQ (link taken from the composer's own site; NOT independently verified here). Tin's own webstore link on his site, christophertin.com/store.html, is DEAD — it returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-05; the live store is https://christophertin.com/pages/store and it sells autographed scores, vinyl and prints, i.e. physical goods, not digital audio. His Bandcamp account (christophertin.bandcamp.com) exists but lists no albums. So: no composer-direct digital route for Tin. Qobuz is the pick.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "The Orange Box (Original Soundtrack)",
"publisher": "Valve (publisher-direct)",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_109 Still Alive"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Bandcamp (Valve's own official account)",
"url": "https://valvehl.bandcamp.com/album/the-orange-box-original-soundtrack",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Label Valve, 19 tracks, released November 1, 2007, digital album price $10 USD. Track 19 is 'Still Alive (J.C. Version)' — the Jonathan Coulton recording. Also verified the parent account page valvehl.bandcamp.com/music, which lists exactly two albums (Half-Life: Alyx and this one) under the name Valve.",
"format": "MP3 320 / FLAC / ALAC / WAV / AIFF / Ogg, 16-bit 44.1kHz",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "10.00",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "Valve running an official Bandcamp is not widely known and it is the cleanest route to Portal's 'Still Alive' in FLAC. Note the version: this is the J.C. Version (Coulton's own vocal), not the in-game GLaDOS/Ellen McLain credits performance. If the rig specifically wants the GLaDOS credits cue, that is a different recording — say so and I will chase it separately. SECOND SELF-PUBLISHED ROUTE, verified by search on 2026-08-05: Jonathan Coulton sells direct at jonathancoulton.bandcamp.com (the 'Still Alive (Feat. Sara Quin)' re-recording from Artificial Heart, MP3/FLAC) and his own site jonathancoulton.com sells his whole catalogue as one discounted zip in MP3 or FLAC. Those are DIFFERENT recordings from the Portal cue — good to know he sells direct, but the Orange Box album is the one that carries EX_109.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Portal 2: Songs to Test By",
"publisher": "Valve / Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_110 Want You Gone"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "Valve official site (FREE) — with a paid FLAC upgrade path on Bandcamp",
"url": "https://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. The page is live and offers the soundtrack as a FREE official download in three volumes (22 + 18 + 24 tracks) plus a complete 64-track bundle served from Valve's own media servers; the complete-collection link on the page points at http://media.steampowered.com/apps/portal2/soundtrack/Portal2-OST-Complete.zip . 'Want You Gone' is listed in Volume 3.",
"format": "M4A (AAC) and M4R only from the free Valve download — NOT MP3 and NOT FLAC, despite what several secondhand sources claim. FLAC is available only via the paid Bandcamp edition below.",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "0.00 free (official) — or 20.00 for the lossless Collectors Edition",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "FREE AND OFFICIAL, so take it first regardless. Honest correction: the widely repeated claim that Valve offers this in MP3 and FLAC is wrong at the source — I read the page and it serves M4A/M4R only. AAC is lossy, so if this cue is going to carry a formula card, upgrade: 'Portal 2: Songs to Test By (Collectors Edition)' on Bandcamp, https://portal2game.bandcamp.com , fetched 2026-08-05 — official release under Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories via Ipecac Recordings, 79 tracks, digital album $20 USD with MP3/FLAC, 'Want You Gone' present as track 53. The 4CD physical jewel case on that page is SOLD OUT. Recommendation: grab the free M4A set today, and buy the $20 FLAC edition only if the rig's spectral measurements prove sensitive to the AAC encode.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "Exile Vilify (From the game \"Portal 2\") — The National, digital single",
"publisher": "The National / 4AD, promotional single for Valve",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_111 Exile Vilify"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "iTunes / Apple Music store, or Amazon Music digital — exact product page NOT verified",
"url": "https://music.apple.com/us/search?term=The%20National%20Exile%20Vilify",
"url_verified": "false — I did NOT verify a product page for this single and I am deliberately giving a store SEARCH url rather than inventing a plausible-looking deep link. What I did verify: this track is NOT on the free Valve Portal 2 download (thinkwithportals.com/music.php — checked, absent) and NOT on the 79-track Portal 2 Collectors Edition on Bandcamp (checked, absent). A Discogs entry (https://www.discogs.com/release/6606045-The-National-Exile-Vilify-From-The-Game-Portal-2) documents it as a 2011 digital single, 256kbps AAC, released 2011-04-19 at $0.99 on iTunes — that is a catalogue record, not a live storefront confirmation.",
"format": "AAC 256kbps if bought from iTunes (DRM-free); Amazon digital would be MP3 256kbps",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "1.29 expected (was $0.99 at 2011 release; current price unverified)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "THE ONLY LOOSE END IN THE CLUSTER. It is a real, cheap, legitimately purchasable digital single — but it is a one-off promo single rather than an album track, it never appeared on either official Portal 2 soundtrack release, and it is the one row here where I could not put a verified product URL in Josh's hand. Search the store rather than clicking a guessed link. If the single has been delisted, the closest substitute carrying the same grammar (slow 6/8 dirge, male baritone over piano, a single unresolved lift at the end) is The National's 'Exile Vilify' as it appears on any in-print National compilation — and failing that, EX_111's role in the CREDITS_TRIUMPH class is already partly covered by EX_109/EX_110, so this is a nice-to-have, not a blocker.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": "The National's own catalogue on Bandcamp/4AD for the same voice-and-piano grammar; or treat EX_111 as deferred, since the Portal credits grammar is already carried by EX_109 (Still Alive) and EX_110 (Want You Gone)."
},
{
"album": "Deus Ex GOTY Edition — includes the official soundtrack as bundled goodies",
"publisher": "Ion Storm / Eidos, sold DRM-free by GOG; music by Alexander Brandon, Michiel van den Bos, Dan Gardopee",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_124 Deus Ex Main Title (UNATCO)"
],
"route_class": "A",
"store": "GOG",
"url": "https://www.gog.com/en/game/deus_ex",
"url_verified": "true — fetched 2026-08-05. Product is 'Deus Ex GOTY Edition', price $3.49 USD (50% off a $6.99 list). The page states 'No activation or online connection required to play' (DRM-free), and the goodies list explicitly includes a SOUNDTRACK alongside manual, HD wallpapers, newspaper handout, reference card and avatar.",
"format": "Soundtrack goody delivered as downloadable audio files with the DRM-free installer (GOG goodies are ordinarily MP3/FLAC); the in-game music additionally ships as Unreal .umx module files inside the install",
"drm_free": true,
"price_usd": "3.49 (50% off, list 6.99)",
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "FLAG — Josh may already own this; Deus Ex GOTY is one of the most commonly-held GOG back-catalogue titles, and if it is in his library the soundtrack goody is a free re-download today, no purchase needed. This is also the answer to 'does the composer sell direct': Alexander Brandon DOES sell on Bandcamp — https://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com/album/conspiravision-deus-ex-remixed , fetched 2026-08-05, 24-bit/44.1kHz MP3/FLAC, individual track 'So It Begins (Deus Ex Main Title)' at '$1.10 USD or more' — BUT I verified that album is 'Conspiravision: Deus Ex Remixed', a 2020 REMIX record, not the 2000 score. A remix is the wrong subject for a formula card measuring the original's grammar. Buy the GOG edition for the authentic UNATCO cue; the Brandon Bandcamp is a legitimate composer-direct route worth knowing but not the one for EX_124.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": null
},
{
"album": "MediEvil (1998, PS1) — original score by Bob & Barn",
"publisher": "Andrew Barnabas & Paul Arnold (Bob & Barn) / Sony Computer Entertainment",
"tracks_in_corpus": [
"EX_171 Dan's Crypt"
],
"route_class": "D",
"store": "none — the 1998 recording has never had a standalone commercial release",
"url": "https://www.bobandbarn.com/tracks/",
"url_verified": "true — fetched the composers' own official site on 2026-08-05. It is a portfolio/showreel site with NO store, no cart, no prices and no download links; MediEvil work is showcased but not sold. Confirming the negative directly rather than assuming it.",
"format": "n/a",
"drm_free": false,
"price_usd": null,
"checked": "2026-08-05",
"notes": "HONEST NEGATIVE. The original 1998 PlayStation score is not purchasable as audio anywhere I could verify: the composers do not sell it, there is no Bandcamp, and no in-print digital release of the PS1 recording surfaced. Everything commercially available is a DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE of the same music. Note this is the only route-D row in the cluster, and the corpus device it carries (EX_171 is a TENSION-class cue) is partly redundant with EX_169/EX_170, so it is a low-cost loss if Josh skips it.",
"substitute_if_unobtainable": "TWO substitutes, both the same composers writing the same cues, so the melodic/harmonic grammar survives even though the timbre does not. (1) BEST GRAMMAR MATCH, ROUTE B: 'MediEvil Resurrection Original Soundtrack' on CD — Bob & Barn's cues re-recorded by the Prague Philharmonic under Nic Raine, which is arguably a BETTER rig subject than the PS1 synth original since the corpus is chasing orchestral masterpiece grammar. I could not verify the Amazon product page (https://www.amazon.com/MediEvil-Resurrection-Original-Soundtrack-Medievil/dp/B000E5KQLE returned HTTP 500 to an automated fetch on 2026-08-05, so that deep link is UNVERIFIED) — use the store search instead: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=MediEvil+Resurrection+Original+Soundtrack . Expect used-CD collector pricing; rip to FLAC after it arrives. (2) ROUTE B/A, REPORTED-NOT-VERIFIED: the MediEvil (2019 PS4 remake) Digital Deluxe Edition is documented by the MediEvil wiki as having gained downloadable MP3 soundtrack tracks in a 2019-12-03 update — same composers, faithful re-orchestration of Dan's Crypt, but it is a PlayStation-storefront purchase and getting the files onto a PC is awkward, so it ranks below the CD."
}
],
"cluster_gaps_and_flags": [
"RUNESCAPE IS NOT IN THE CORPUS. The assignment named Runescape as part of this cluster, but a fresh read of CORPUS.json (182 tracks, EX_001-EX_184 with EX_100/EX_105 absent) contains no Runescape row and no Jagex composer. Nothing was bought or researched for it. If a Runescape cue is wanted, it needs to enter the corpus as a normal addition first — and note that Jagex has never sold the RS soundtrack commercially, so it would likely land route C/D.",
"EX_116 'Way in the Ghost' (Transistor) IS NOT A REAL TRACK on either Supergiant release — full tracklists of both the OST and the Extended were fetched and checked. Flagged for the corpus owner; not silently corrected. The album purchase covers whatever was intended.",
"THREE STEAM SOUNDTRACK DLCs MAY ALREADY BE ON DISK: Undertale (app 391570), Hollow Knight (598190), Bastion (107104), Transistor (299240). All four require the base game on the same account. Before spending anything, it is worth checking the Steam library — Bastion and Undertale in particular deliver plain MP3 folders inside the game directory, which the rig can read today at zero cost.",
"TRANSISTOR STEAM SALE IS TIME-BOXED: $1.99 for OST + Extended, promotion ends August 10 2026 per the store page read on 2026-08-05.",
"PORTAL 2 FORMAT CORRECTION: the free official Valve download is M4A/AAC, not MP3/FLAC as commonly reported. If the rig is sensitive to lossy encoding, that is a $20 upgrade decision, not a free one.",
"COMPOSER-DIRECT SALES CONFIRMED for Toby Fox, Christopher Larkin, C418, Darren Korb/Supergiant, Hakita/Heaven Pierce Her, Jonathan Coulton, Alexander Brandon, and Valve itself. NOT confirmed for Christopher Tin (Bandcamp empty, own store is physical goods only, and the store link printed on his own site 404s) or Bob & Barn (portfolio site, no store)."
]
}