nekkichi
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before this place has an opportunity to explode in another sales related shitpost - Maroon 5 bassist was arrested for selling cocaine, this market has never been about living off CD revenue even at the peak of their market sales, this can be extrapolated further but holy shit, your scene has fallen out of vogue and music market stagnation (coupled with stagnant local economy) is not helping it, like deal with it without screaming bloody murder all over the board onegai—
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i actually got at statistics i wanted to see with part 2 of my post about piracy in visual kei which you sum up nicely. we don't actually know how many people spend money on buying releases but out of everyone that took the time to vote in my topic (which locks at the end of the month), a whopping 75% of them have bought or continue to buy music in addition to pirating what they can't afford. this is a very small sample size (n=36) but even out of that number, a quarter of them said they buy everything they can.
if this market has never been about living off CD revenue, and the way that most international vk fans can support their favorite artists is by buying their CDs, then i think we're already doing a lot as a group. chasing the most ideal outcome may not even be possible.
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there's more to vk community than mh users too.
vk is also different from traditional western music market in a sense a minority of this scene is actually educated in music or outright bought their careers, but they still can get relatively successful without marrying into money or w/e through having a host-club/barmen side-gig, essentially drawing in more fans for what they do on stage.
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