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I love the 100yen shelf in the Closed Child stores ! Always finding some good stuff in there!
Bought the album from DictavE and NvM at their live tho.
 

 
also finally got my JILUKA stuff that was sent back to my friend so we decided that I'll come and pick it up instead.

- Epica - Epica vs Attack on Titan songs
- Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic
- Architects - Holy Hell
- The Browning - Geist
- BEHEMOTH - I Love You At Your Darkest

❤️
Thanks to my dear friend who give me this flyers and magazines ❤️ 

List of stuff (not in order)
Nihilizm - Cry This More (Live-Distributed Single)
Vidoll - Bastard (Limited Edition), V.I.D.-Very Important Doll- (Regular Edition), Tokyo Maimu 2008.12.19 C.C. Lemon Hall DVD
the Gazette - NIL (Limited Edition)
Joker - Pinky Love Affair (Is this the title? Just roughly translated it.) (Thanks @Ultra Silvam for the clarification!)
Sadie - 溺哀-dekiai- (both versions)
Kagrra, - Ouka Ranman (Limited Edition), Miyako (Limited Edition), Shizuku (Limited Edition)
Alice Nine - Alpha (Limited Edition)
Versailles - Jubilee (Limited Edition)

these discs actually have sick designs/artwork as well 

poggers

First pic: LAREINE and NEW SODMY comment/bonus CD/DVD, second is Versailles, third is KAMIJO. All the Versailles and KAMIJO are new, but the LAREINE ones I had about half before. Here is a list (not in order):
 
LAREINE 月の狩人 Unpluged Live Event
LAREINE JAN-23, 2006 Meguro Live Station TALK+SAKURA
LAREINE Unreleased Song demo 1
LAREINE Unreleased Song demo 2
LAREINE 「SCREAM」ライカエジソン
LAREINE 「SCREAM」ライカエジソン
LAREINE 「道化師の舞曲」「雪恋詩」「Cinderella Fantasy」トリプル購入特典 サードステージ 
LAREINE ごめんなさいCD-R
LAREINE 2002/10/30&10/31ハロウィンイベント両日参加者配布CD
LAREINE 『Deep Forest』 『Imperial Concerto』 (Special CDR)
LAREINE X’mas Message CD
LAREINE Anamorphosis SPECIAL DVD
LAREINE Métamorphose Message Tape
LAREINE ツアー出発前メッセージ Message Tape
LAREINE ツアー出発前メッセージ Message Tape
LAREINE Never Cage GURUGURU Message CD
LAREINE Himatsu remix
LAREINE 青い鳥の行方
 
NEW SODMY White Lie Message CDr
NEW SODMY SODOM ORIGINAL CDS -2001-
NEW SODMY 2002.4.7 Shibuya On Air East First Anniversary A way of life
 
Versailles NOBLE Comment DVD
Versailles The Greatest Hits 2007-2016 Like and Edison コメントDVD
Versailles ASCENDEAD MASTER ディスクユニオン コメントCD
Versailles PRINCE & PRINCESS/スーパーレコード(この商品のみコメントCDです)
Versailles JUBILEE ZEAL LINK コメDVD
Versailles The Gratest HITS 2007-2016/ディスクユニオン
 
KAMIJO Heart DVD-R Like an Eidson
KAMIJO Heart DVD ZEAL LINK
KAMIJO Louis ZEAL LINK
KAMIJO HEART HMV Vol. 2
KAMIJO HEART Vol. 4 タワーレコード)
KAMIJO Louis Disc Union ディスクユニオン

I called it! I'm also as lost as you are lmfao initially assumed it was just another VK non-word

Mr. Children always kinda creeps me out.

i hate shit like this:
？？？ (read "hatena")
Uma ("yuuma"... how is anyone gonna think anything but horse)
麺’ｓ卵 ("men's egg")
彡 ("keno")
 
DragonWAPPPPPPER, Berallwarp Rheim, P*Route, ギャックメン (gyackmen, sounds like a hairball), Guy's Family, PIECElang were all p bad
キナルラ/kinarura as "kenllre" is awful
Develop One’s Faculties and breakin' holiday sound dumb as hell too.
 
i think you can't beat a punchy one-word name that doesn't have some ridiculous reading.

THE MAD SIMPSON takes the cake - edgy, nonsensical and ALL CAPS!
(killer band tho)

Any band name that makes it deliberately hard to search for them.

oh lord. there's a bunch of bands with terrible names, especially new ones. i'm gonna challenge myself and list 20+ from the top of my head (they're not ranked btw)
 
Houts Chicktak Chic Boy An Cafe/Antic Cafe??? cuz I never know what they're actually called Xaoce (pronounced CHAOS) LA bate RIMCAT Rides in Revellion (...) nuvɔ:gu (new vogue) D, S, M, etc. Sadies Marry nano Mother ted [email protected] BLESS THIS MESS SUPER BOYS Black Gene for the Next Scene Initial'L Tear City DIERRY CALL Frantic EMIRY グラビティ↗↗楽しさ♪FULLVOLTAAAGE!!! *

Kizu, Dimlim, and Mamireta are all in completely different situations.
 
Kizu has their own label, but they didn't start from scratch. Lime and Reiki (mostly Lime) were already well established musicians so I doubt money was ever an issue for them.
 
Mamireta is on a label, Punch Records, which is a sublabel of Forum aka the label Mejibray was on. They are not the only band on Punch records, KRAD is on there as well. Sounds like they self-produced their first two releases and distributed them through Like An Edison before being signed, so I'm gonna assume they pulled money together and/or took out a loan. (Taking out loans is super easy in Japan from what I've heard) 
Now money is clearly not an issue.

Dimlim is self-produced. They don't have a label, they do everything themselves and Retsu kind of acts like a leader/manager since Issei got the boot. If you're thinking Ong distribution is their label, it is not. Ong is a distribution company through which arists without labels can put their music in CD shops throughout Japan. Gallo self-produced and distributed their music through Ong for years before being signed by Terakoya. 
I'm going to assume they, too, pooled money together/took out a loan when they first started and got a lot of help from Issei who has a lot of band experience.

Alternative: hide profits because taxes are optional, sell physical copies of selfies, befriend every other label-head so your groups are a special guest at every big event, write 4~6 songs with the intention of having your signed bands use them and then modify the melodies slightly for each ghost-written instance, have every band signed to you appear in every vkei publication, then get caught in a sex scandal and hope you're picked up by a reality TV outlet once you're done getting meToo'd.
 
#matina101

Here is one way:
 
1. Start band and label. Apply for a loan to fund label. Can be bank, can be from a sempai, can be from parents, etc.
2. Budget real good.
3. Use some label funds for band activities. Use profits from band activities to pay back those internal loans.
4. Bust ass working hard doing your day and night jobs.
 
 
If you do it right, you could earn back the money you put into your band to pay off the first loan, and then your label is ready for the next step. I suspect these bands that run their own label are also putting up personal money to fill the gap.

For anyone who understands Japanese, Itsuki (ex. vocalist of Bergerac) has made a series of vids regarding VK costs.

If these costs are true idk how bands that played in front of 30 people can manage to find that much money

I'm hyped too, should be a good release
 
kind of ot, but I think this is the first time Hiro has actually had a full album of material released? While googling to confirm, this happened. Was anyone aware of this? Did they name their band after a fucking horse lmao

There is a lengthy trailer now up with samples of the album and some cool old-school video footage with hilarious Engrish~
 
 
It's a bit more electronic than I would have preferred but not bad!
 
By the way the regular store release date is now confirmed for 2019/01/30.

Am I the only person who likes this? The 90's vibes are so nice and refreshing considering basically every revival band is dying but at least karma's taking a stab at the 90's nagoya sound. Production is really dull for sure but I don't doubt karma could turn these songs into some sad post-punk dirge onstage and give the fangirls ALL the emo vibes

there's something new about the bolded thing, some of those tracks literally sound like they were recorded through a clonazepam comedown
 
whiney is the entire late avelcain, yes