saishuu

just like their name huh

e tem gente por aqui (ninguém que tenha visto aqui nesse tópico) que acha importante e uma atitude louvável deixar de comer e de gastar dinheiro com coisas essenciais do dia-a-dia pra comprar CDs com preços absurdos lol é fácil falar em apoiar a cena quando você mora na europa e ganha em euro. comprar CDs aqui do Brasil, pelo menos de forma constante, só funciona de você for rico e tiver dinheiro de sobra todo mês. comprei horrores e enchi uma prateleira enquanto podia, quando o dólar tava abaixo ou próximo dos R$2. agora? nope, sem remorso algum

just like their name huh

A parada é que MH não se propõe a isso, nunca se propôs. É um fórum de 50 cabeças que tão aqui desde sempre, conversam sobre os mesmos assuntos a 10 anos, xingam bandas velhas e novas e gostam de uma coisa ou outra nova. Uns saem e voltam, uns novatos entram e curtem, muitos não ficam, e é isso. Não acho que seja a intenção crescer e virar algo com um objetivo maior, já tem lugares propondo fazer diferente por aí. Aqui é tipo o safe spot da comunidade ocidental pra falar besteira dessa coisa nicho do nicho do nicho chamada VK.
 
Quanto a downloads, as regras daqui são as mesmas pra música no mundo todo, não acho que tenha que ser diferente. Baixa quem quer, compra quem quer, faz streaming quem tá afim. Cortar o acesso pra tentar forçar uma compra ou coisa do tipo só serve pra alienar uma galera de curtir a música.
 
Nurié por exemplo, eu me amarro demais no som dos caras. Eles estão no Spotify, então 100% do tempo eu ouço por lá, apesar de ter baixado pra caso um dia não esteja mais disponível. Pretendo comprar os CDs quando o dólar não tiver fucking CINCO REAIS E TRINTA CENTAVOS, mas mesmo assim porque gosto mesmo da banda. Dar 70 reais num single de 3 músicas é uma maluquice surreal pra maioria das pessoas, a verdade é essa

just like their name huh

just like their name huh

just like their name huh

you just want to compare very sensitive financial information with others in a forum about Japanese music, in a very unstable situation worldwide no less suuure. from discussing politics with very questionable views months ago to then vanishing from the forums after new rules were set and then returning all of sudden creating a discusstion about credit scores? there's nothing shady about you at all!

from being associated with ex-soroban members in zoro to joining yumehito's former band, this guy is one step away from replacing him in ayabie lmao
 
also anonymous is going nowhere, huh

from being associated with ex-soroban members in zoro to joining yumehito's former band, this guy is one step away from replacing him in ayabie lmao
 
also anonymous is going nowhere, huh

yass Hiro teaching random overhyped lessers how to look at the essence, we stan 👏

oh boy this sounds tastyyyyy. whoever was responsible for making them change their sound, thank you. this is so much better than all their previous garbage (which I also loved tbh)

jk, but yeah, really digging the sample. These guys are on a roll lately.

hard koala is a bop

I liked their last 2 mini-albums, but bye!!

Also there was a time when people shared a lot on blogspot, though most of the times the files were taken from p2p networks anyway and there was some drama with blogs shamelessly copying links from Tainted World / Monochrome Heaven.
 
If you were lucky enough to live in the German speaking realms then you could mail order japanese CDs from stores like Neo Tokyo, the Japan and Manga shop that spwaned the Gan-Shin records label, which distributed many japanese rock, pop and VK releases in the West. Thanks to Gan-Shin I got releases from D'espairsRay and Dir en grey. Also Trisol brought Moi dix Mois albums to Europe and then there was the Astan Magazine related label which distributed and booked tours for the gothy and darkwave-ish side of VK. Sometimes amazon had good deals on imports as well (got Malice Mizer's albums there). That was all around 2005-2007-ish for me.
 
Then CDJapan came along and not long after I discovered shopping services. The latter had been a thing since the early to mid 00s I believe, but it was very expensive. Warehouse based shopping services like FromJapan or Zenmarket didn't exist yet, you only had the option of asking and paying a person who lived in Japan directly to get your stuff and send it to you. For me that was out of reach, since I got into VK when I was a teen and didn't have much of a budget, I usually bought what i could afford through webstores or physical.
 
I only got into forums like tainted world around '06, so I was never part of the very early ones, like the infamous batsu forums (but I heard quite a lot of it).
 
I too used yunisan a lot… RIP. It wasn't updated since a long time though, while vk.gy looks to be a good follow-up and replacement. I second the use of soulseek. You won't find much VK stuff there anymore, sadly, but if you look for other obscure music from genres like punk, indie, metal or post-punk, then you will likely find it there. Considering that most DL blogs and music sharing sites are dead, soulseek and torrents may be the only places for pirating and grabbing hard to get stuff today.

oh boy, here we go
 
last.fm was never the website to go for these things. I believe most people just used it to scrobble their music and discover new things.
 
back then I used to search for mp3 and videos using p2p programs like kazaa, and later on soulseek and occasionally winmx. that was what, between 2003-2006? there were a few websites with info, scans and downloads too, but the p2p scene was where it was at.
 
that was before livejournal communities became popular and everyone moved on to those. there were plenty of communities for magazine scans, downloads and specific ones for every band imaginable. at the same time, a little tracker called tonberry torrents also gained traction until it ended in 2007? 2008? and became a forum called tainted world, which is where we are now

pretty safe.  I still have a ton of burned CDs with things I downloaded off slsk and kazaa ages ago and they're all good. I still use slsk regularly, but this time only for western stuff as I can find vk/japanese music elsewhere easier. never had problems with torrents either, but I get why you avoid them!

oh boy, here we go
 
last.fm was never the website to go for these things. I believe most people just used it to scrobble their music and discover new things.
 
back then I used to search for mp3 and videos using p2p programs like kazaa, and later on soulseek and occasionally winmx. that was what, between 2003-2006? there were a few websites with info, scans and downloads too, but the p2p scene was where it was at.
 
that was before livejournal communities became popular and everyone moved on to those. there were plenty of communities for magazine scans, downloads and specific ones for every band imaginable. at the same time, a little tracker called tonberry torrents also gained traction until it ended in 2007? 2008? and became a forum called tainted world, which is where we are now

oh boy, here we go
 
last.fm was never the website to go for these things. I believe most people just used it to scrobble their music and discover new things.
 
back then I used to search for mp3 and videos using p2p programs like kazaa, and later on soulseek and occasionally winmx. that was what, between 2003-2006? there were a few websites with info, scans and downloads too, but the p2p scene was where it was at.
 
that was before livejournal communities became popular and everyone moved on to those. there were plenty of communities for magazine scans, downloads and specific ones for every band imaginable. at the same time, a little tracker called tonberry torrents also gained traction until it ended in 2007? 2008? and became a forum called tainted world, which is where we are now

livejournal was a great source back in the day for vk related scans and such. scape forum and batsu forum were popular spots for discussion. glamjapan and jrocknyc were popular blog-related sites for vk-related content, too.

HGP, Kamijo, Versailles... Just like IRL, from the plague comes the Renaissance!!! 

love that they're optimistic that they're gonna be around until september

oh, i've missed those "we've lost a member and don't want to spend a lot of money in new clothes and photoshoots until we find some new members" looks. absolute icons

Fingers crossed Taishi reunites with Hiro lol