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Sex Machineguns shirt, L size. After being a huge SMG fan for 11 years, at last I have it! Bought it via proxy service that managed to import it to Poland!
Highly reccommend for some rares, if you have enough money saved up  

Since I enjoyed my foray into western rock, I decided to pay a visit to the Korean (indie) rock side of things. I've been getting into the aforementioned Cotoba! Their newest ep was a very entertaining listen. I'm also been listening to some Guckkasten these days too
 

Dreams about your favourite bands are pretty cool! And I just happened to have had a dream that I saw Plastic Tree hold the worst ever concert. would I still stan? the answer is yes One of Kenken's drum sticks went flying and some gya screamed in joy or pain when she realized that it hit her/she got to keep it forever. Akira held a note too long but he played it cool, though Tadashi stopped playing altogether and looked really confused before he kept playing on. Ryutaro tried to keep carrying the song but he looked mildly panicked lmao. The biggest offender was Ryutaro though. Ryutaro kept forgetting the lyrics, mumbling his way through them hoping that his usual speech tic of talking like he's gotta bunch of marbles in his mouth would cover him. When they hit the English part of Gentle.Light.And.Soul he sounded like he was speaking some sorta fucked up dialect of Southern-American spoken through a Chinese accent. He also kept tripping over himself. At one point he just fell down face-up and one of the audience members gave him a head pat while he stared upwards, dead inside. And then he ate a bad parfait with the rest of the gang and couldn't go to the back stage VIP meetings because he was holed up in the bathroom. My dream ended there. God, I wish I could've recorded this dream and shown it here because it was the funniest shit ever. 

This is sooo ~randum~, but hey. I really wanna see people's replies to this
If you had to describe one (or more) of your favorite vk band(s) with one piece of media, be it a paragraph, a lyric, a picture, a song, an mv, an interview, whatever - how would you describe it? That one thing you saw and went "oh, ok, this is quintessentially ___".
 
This idea actually crossed my mind when I felt this watching Nazuki by Nightmare - a PV not many would consider their favorite but I really liked back then and completely forgot why, until I went back to it years later and realized the mess it is lol.
 
 
From there I realized that I only like messy bands most bands would have something like that you consider to be a "classical (this band)" thing, so... please introduce me to your favorite band(s) with one piece of media alone! No need to explain it, just go!  (The weirder, the better.)

I feel weird posting 3 times in a row but I figured might as well drop this info since it is time sensitive:
 
https://goatbed.thebase.in/
 
Almost all the streams from the past few months are up for sale only throughout September. Weialala leia Wallala leialala DL version is up for 3 days starting yesterday @ 9pm, so I suppose you have about 2 days left. Idk. It's 2,000yen.  If you are interested: buy now.
 
At the Weialala leia Wallala leialala lives a card with a QR code was on sale which provided access to DLs for the songs on the upcoming album, Weialala leia Wallala leialala, with one or two songs released per week. Actually, it also has at least one "DL exclusive" version that will be different from what will be on the CD.
 
Anyway, the Weialala leia Wallala leialala DL being sold on the online shop provides the link to the same URL that the QR code takes you too.
 
Shuuji only announced the Weialala leia Wallala leialala DL would be up for sale in the blog, which is FC only.
So, I dont think it's common knowledge, even though it's being sold on the public store (vs the FC store). 
His main reasoning was 1) many people couldnt go and thus also couldnt buy the cards and so this is to give those who did want to buy it a chance 2) it's boring to read the updates on his blog about the songs 
 
Honestly, I feel like Shuuji truly goes out of his way to provide content to fans as much as possible, especially during the COVID era.
 
The songs provided so far↓↓

And, as usual with Shuuji, they are lossless  
Actually, they're all WAV (.rf64), so you'll have to convert if you want to play it with a lot of media players lol.... sasuga....

Imagine going on a date with a girl and tricking her into thinking that you speak French just by saying a bunch of VK band names like it's a sentence.
 
Lareine Versailles? emmurée. Moi dix Mois, Baiser, L'arc en Ciel. Noir Fleurir... Noi'x.

Just a bunch of cali≠gari shit, praise be

 
All in all, a very good batch. I was thinking of getting more while I had time, but I decided to stick with what I have for multiple reasons. Might take a pic of my cali collection on the shelf when I'm done ripping everything. I'll also be taking some more pics/scans later on, there's a lot of great artwork here.
 
I copped 回想、睡蓮と向日葵 for ¥2,600. I was expecting something to be missing/broken, but turns out, the worst thing about it is a small tattering on the obi band. I think everything I got here was for a reasonable price, although マグロ was ¥5,000, 残響、睡蓮と向日葵 was ¥2,500 (sealed though), and the 職業病 mini was full price since it was from Ao's shop. Everything else was a good deal at worst.

got some cali gari delivered today too 🙌
 

 

 
aaand some goats yesterday

Ahh putin he holds asads leash while Russia bombs city's I like how they only see the media side of it lmao vodka so funny lmao Russian anthem so funny how about all the supplys they sent to terrorist groups one of them had a fmj stinger others have an 94 fucking Russia 

Ben's spitting some fire barz tho 👀
 

I just realized that philosophers are just socially accepted emos. 
 
That says a lot about society though; you're only taken seriously after you die...

GOATBED's stream is finally announced:
Tomorrow @ 9pm japan time
👇👇
https://youtu.be/EMD4X7RGH10
 
 

Might be an ironic parody but I've been unironically loving this song for years
 

GOATBED

GOATBED is the solo project of vocalist Shuji Ishii
 
GOATBED  is a Japanese electropop band. First known as goatbed, they begun releasing music in early 2003, after cali≠gari's activity suspension. The band went on a hiatus on May 2, 2008 and reunited 3 years later (2011), an event that resulted in major member changes. Before their first disbandment, the band's main focus was 80's new wave rock music. Their current style, however, leans towards techno and minimalism.
 
Current line-up:
 
Shuji Ishii (石井秀仁) - Vocals, Guitar, Programming (2003.6 - present)  
Yuji Ishii (石井雄次) - Keyboards (2011 - present)  
 
 

i was gonna put this in the last music related buy thread but i figured it might be better suited here
 
running out of cali gari CDs to buy so it's mostly DVDs
 

 
 
+ 第5実験室 予告版 with that hidden track which was a nightmare for an idiot like me to rip but i already put it away so i didnt get a pic of it
 
oh, and the dai2 demo tape came today. look at that cali gari money...
 

 
I've got a few more things shipped and on the way and more waiting to be shipped (looking @ u surugaya) 
 
once I buy
2018 oyasuminasai 2017 shitasaki last dance 2012 夏の日 密室 ザ☆ベストイレブン 非金属の夜 20130927 SHIBUYA O-EAST I'll be calling it a day and say collection COMPLETE
 
because not sure it's worth getting 
残響、睡蓮と向日葵 for 1 extra track,  初恋中毒〜童貞一直線篇〜 only popped up once and it was bought instantly so i give up before i begin 俺は怒ってる does this even exist is it really what the heck 俺が咲く山~Ride On! BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN~ impossible to get  新しい新曲デモバージョンCD-R「トゥナイトゥナイ ヤヤヤ」 it doesnt pop up often and i'm not that big on the two versions i have already. i think it's on surugaya but eh the 2 sonosheets especially since the aoe one is on the goodbye disc 2 if I can get 第1実験室 and 洗脳's demo tapes for not 20,000 per tape then i will consider grabbing them🤔
 
 
does this mean it is time to start my lifelong journey to complete the goatbed discography 

There were some years i listened to Kpop, some years active following up on everything some years just runing through the same old stuff. 
Its easy on the ears, you get easy into a new song, because of how much they sound the same. 
The thing i noticed how i got used to this over time of listening. 
They always have that obligatory rap part inside somewhere.  i personally think its the most noticable thing, even if you have no idea about music you will notice that at one point every group needed a rapper. 
Eitherway we all know the music is generic crap. 
The fandoms are hell (apparently some groups have nice fandoms)
I am tired of seeing fancams on twitter everywhere. 
Visual wise they all  look the same. 
Plastic surgery everywhere
Sexualising minors
I could go on with the stuff that annoys me on kpop, but lets stop it
I am just waiting for the third generation groups to finally get some nice scandals. (i mean second generations kpop had some shit going on)
The only thing i still listen to sometimes are Wonder Girls.
 
Oh, yes, also thanks to those JO1 guys the kpop fandom kept attacking the jpop fandom for a while on twitter. It was fun. 
Last but not least, i think KPop has some actually good singers out there, Its just hard to know when they have to sing and perform some crazy dance performance at the same time. Or they get like 3 words inside the whole song. They have dancers that are good, but that doesn't mean they can sing. They have good rappers, but that doesn't mean they can dance. 
 
Also i remember seeing some live stuff from bts and don't get me wrong, but it was crap. First off, those microphones that are around your head are mostly shit eitherway, second they wasnt able to keep the singing up during the dancing, which didn't surpise me in the least. 
 
Ah. sorry it got long and like always i feel its chaotic 
 

Sharaku had a an acoustic gig livestream with Ao yesterday:
 
 
 
Ao played his set of 10 songs (setlist in the link), thereafter Sharaku played his set of 8 (which includes his solo songs, a cover of lab the basement's '狂い蝉が叫んだ朝に' & cali gari's '冬の日'). Ao came in to join him afterwards for 2 more songs before they ended the stream. Sharaku didn't share his setlist though.
 
And yeah, Ao was wearing a wig when he played covers of female singers during his set and didn't want to take it off. Oh Ao~
 
Ao also indicated that for the cali gari x deadman gigs postponed to 2021, he will create another song with deadman for those gigs:
 
 
 

no more terrible quality rips that also are mislabeled with shuuji 2 vocals🙌🙌 

Therapist: Hage Fukusuke isn't real, he can't hurt you
Hage Fukusuke:

You could say that... My wig was snatched thank you I'll be here all day

I have a point though. And the only things that have died under my care are plants! no one else trusts me with their pets and kids

From zero to one hundred real quick 

From zero to one hundred real quick 

I was the defacto student leader of my high school's gardening club! I love tending to plants because it's relaxing and fun to watch their progress. My favourite plant to grow are tomato plants, specifically cherry tomatoes because I like to eat their fruit (tomatoes are a fruit I guess). I tended to one when I was a kid and being able to make a salad out of its tomatoes was a special childhood memory for me. 
 
The greatest thing about plants is unlike with children and pets, you can't get arrested for killing them, which does happen kiiiiiiinda often with me. Our gardening club's tower garden got a giant gnat infestation because the PH was too high, and plants at home have been ended from either too much sun or being over watered.That being said, some plants in my household are have been around for ages. My room has this plant, honestly can’t remember what it even is but he’s been around for almost 9 years now. We had this ginormous jungle plant in our living room for about 4 years until the cat killed it. And, ah yes, there's one plant my mom bought over a decade ago that we still have (Chinese money tree) that's like six feet tall at this point.

i think @felipar is talking about all the streams i've posted recaps of or am i mistaken?
-cali gari has done 2 streams (6/7 and 7/7) on e+'s streaming site
--ao did a separate commentary on youtube for people to play along with the streams and he's said some pretty interesting things during them
-ao did a twitcast stream for his birthday (no archive, 4 hours long)
-goatbed did 4 twitcasts during the goatspace tour as well as a stream on muser on 6/5(?) and a stream with kozi on 7/5(?) 
i've got all of them in some capacity thanks to screen recording or them providing a DL for people who paid, which is one reason why i can go back and watch and get the commentary again.
but there is no archive left for any of them so if you wanted to go and watch now, unfortunately, it's not possible
 
cali gari's next stream will be 8/8 which will be footage of the cali gari/deadman live this month
 
 
the 君が咲く山 disc is, thankfully, a mini disc. so i dont have to find a spot for yet another giant novelty cd case.
also yes i love the questionnaire lmao
 
but now i have three four extra CDs that i already had owned.......