Want to Add $16 to Movie Tab?

Coming soon to a theater near you . . . soundtrack CDs.

Talk about one-stop shopping. If market tests prove successful, moviegoers will be able to purchase music from the films they’ve just seen--in addition to popcorn, licorice, nachos and soda--inside the theater.

Movie Music Inc., based in El Segundo, is testing its soundtrack vending machines in various U.S. cities on the premise that people walk out of movies humming theme songs but later forget to buy the soundtracks.

Setting up shop on the spot could be a very smart business move. “Soundtracks have sold better in the last two years than they have ever,” says Andrea Nicholas, senior sales manager of Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood.

Each vending machine holds 360 CDs. Each soundtrack costs $16, about the same as it would in a traditional record store.

“Wild Wild West,” anyone?