Haniel

There is a way to get rare CDs - auctions. You don't have to understand Japanese to use it; there are lots of shopping services that can help you bid or purchase an item at an auction. Examples include Buyee, FromJapan, and Shopping Mall Japan. You just have to search for a particular CD you want, and hopefully it'll be there; it just depends on if anyone's actually selling it.

i'm the same now. I get the cd and support the band at the same time. It's a win-win situation.

Yeah, and people don't buy/share visual kei music like they used to. When I was first in the scene almost a decade ago, it was easy to find music. Now people don't share nearly as much as before for (probably) many reasons.