do you listen to soundtracks of movies you haven't seen?

i never done this before, have you?

All the time. In fact I would say 60% of the soundtracks I have listened to are to movies I have never seen.

Very rarely - I cannot even recall any example.

Yes
About a third of the soundtracks I own and listen to are from movies I've never seen.

Yeah, I do actually... I don't know if there's any sense in it, though. ;P

Yep, sometimes the music inspires the need to see the movie. My most recent example: K-Pax ( Edward Shearmur ). Or the music inspires to watch the movie yet again. Best example here: Elizabeth: The Golden Age ( Craig Armstrong and Ar Rahman ).

What's really weird is the 'new' Mozart versions you get to hear in Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute" (2006 but was just rushed through a small amount of cinemas here in Germany)

I have a ton of Ennio Morricone stuff, and I've only seen about 10 movies with his score in it.

I listened to Nick Cave/Warren Ellis' score to The Assassination of Jesse James... before I saw the film. Which made me appreciate the score even more.

I have started doing this recently with movie AND game soundtracks.

It's just not meaningful enough to me anymore to see the movie, or play the game, before listening to the soundtrack.

I say if you like the artist in question, don't hesitate to listen to the soundtrack if you have no interest in what the album was composed for.

For example, I love Hitoshi Sakimoto's work. However, I had no interest in playing FFXII, so I just found the soundtrack and tried it out. Needless to say, I would have missed out on a lot of quality music had I waited to play the game.

Vigaku pisze:
I have some soundtracks from games I haven't played
Same here. I like to listen to soundtracks made by certain composers - it doesn't matter if i have played that game. same goes for movies/series. all i care is music ;)

I guess around 50% here. I usually download whatever I can find, and if its good I buy the cd. Really good - watch the movie. :-)

Most of the times, 80% perhaps, the soundtracks I listen to come from movies/games/series I have already seen/played, but if I find a soundtrack of an artist I already know I love (or, if the artist have been recommended to me), I usually download and listen to it without having seen the movie/played the game, although not entirely guilt-free. Like with Michael Andrews's soundtrack of "Me and You and Everyone We Know", I end up seeing the movie anyways.
But I do have the soundtrack of "Reqiuem For a Dream", and I haven't seen that movie yet. :o

Sometimes I do, if I hear good things about the soundtrack.

About half of the soundtracks I own are from films/games I've never seen/played. That's fine with me. I've found in many movies that the score is buried or so abbreviated that I enjoy it better as a standalone project.