anakuro

btw those who attend the oneman live 「どしゃ降りの心斎橋」 @ 心斎橋VARON on July 1st will receive a LIVE DVD of the song 感電、けがのおそれがあります。 (kanden, kega no osore ga arimasu) as a present.
 
Also, they're making a demo tonight according to Kazuki's twitter sooo I personally expect them to announce a new release at the oneman.

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

XAA-XAA cheki from the in stores on Sunday and it's mostly Roji because I am 500% trash

btw those who attend the oneman live 「どしゃ降りの心斎橋」 @ 心斎橋VARON on July 1st will receive a LIVE DVD of the song 感電、けがのおそれがあります。 (kanden, kega no osore ga arimasu) as a present.
 
Also, they're making a demo tonight according to Kazuki's twitter sooo I personally expect them to announce a new release at the oneman.

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

XAA-XAA cheki from the in stores on Sunday and it's mostly Roji because I am 500% trash

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

I went to 3/4 of XAA-XAA's in stores on Sunday
 
 
...And I've come to the conclusion me and Roji are incapable of taking good pictures together

XAA-XAA cheki from the in stores on Sunday and it's mostly Roji because I am 500% trash

..........I do this sometimes hahahahahaha That's how DWP came in to my life, randomly bought 6P.
 
People also fail to realize that 90%+ of VK bands are not trying to sell to you at all. You're not going to their lives and buying like 20 chekis until you get the right one, multiple copies of CDs for instore privileges, etc. Live limited releases are a make sure your fans come and buy your release directly from you(more money for the artist, they don't have to split with CD shop and distribution), especially if they haven't heard it and if they like downloaded it somewhere and they thought it sucked, then they're definitely not going to come to your live and purchase a copy.
Live limited releases are fair game as well on auctions, if you think about it this way, I just spent 3500yen on a ticket to go buy this 1500yen single, add in transportation, etc. You're looking at more than 6000yen, compared to the 3000yen they're asking for at auction.
If you love the band enough, you will always find a way to get a release. Even if it takes years.

That's by far one of the most common defenses for sharing. The reasoning goes along the lines of: 1) sharing is bad; 2) however sharing has some good consequences; 3) therefore, on balance, sharing is ok insofar as the good consequences outweigh the 'wrongness' of the act.
I can't agree with this argument because it falsely casts sharing as the precondition for people to find out about new bands and presumably become interested in buying CDs. Some users say that well yeah it's 2015, so filesharing is inevitable (which is true, although its inevitability has no bearing on whether it's the right thing to do). What these people also fail to point out is that precisely because it's 2015, the ease with which a band can advertize themselves and raise awareness of their music, and the extent to which this has already been done, is unprecedented. On the consumer end, it used to be the case that the only way to get to know a band is to rely on word of mouth, rent CDs from Tsutaya (or your friend), or low-quality illegal rips on the Internet. Fast-forward to 2015 where there's Youtube and Twitter and Facebook. Most bands today upload previews for their releases way before they go on sale, and some even upload the full title track and PV in 1080p. Like Owl mentioned there's even Trombe's news for all of us who don't know Japanese or are too lazy to scour Twitter. It's ridiculous to think people who still buy CDs make purchases by randomly taking a stab the dark and find new favorites by buying arbitrary releases from new indies bands they haven't heard. So the more pertinent question for me is: are these materials not sufficient for one to make informed judgments whether a CD is worth buying? If they are, then it's untrue that without filesharing the vk band will fail to gain appreciable reach to international audiences. The alleged "good consequences" credited to filesharing can now be achieved through numerous other means. If no, then said person probably won't buy the release even if someone shares a rip with him/her--in which case this entire position collapses into a poor excuse for not paying for a commodity one desires. It's surprising how some people cheerfully ignore the potential of these social media avenues for supplanting piracy as convenient (and hopefully morally more acceptable) ways to know about a band, but are always more than happy to adduce their emergence as rather dubious 'evidence' of how piracy is now ok "because it's 2015."
I also have issues with the third premise because the problem of magnitude is tricky. It draws all our attention to the miniscule gain in sales the band enjoys from the handful of people who, apparently, couldn't make up their minds whether to buy their CD after watching the band's youtube preview and had to listen to the FLAC to make their final decision--and sweeps under the rug all the losses in sales that band suffers as a consequence of this. Even if we grant that not everyone who downloads free music would have bought the music had it not been available for download, it isn't difficult at all to weigh the scales; for if it's indeed the case that piracy benefits the band in the purported way, we'll have to seriously wonder why bands bitch about illegal downloads every few days. As such it's probably less appropriate to think of the inadvertent losses incurred as some kind of 'collateral damage' that accompanies the larger good of getting international fans to buy music, than it is to conceive of the small gains in the latter group as being incidental to the harm piracy inflicts on overall band sales.
Anyway, before I'm accused of being hypocritical: obviously I'm one of those who download sometimes since I can't afford to buy every single CD I want to listen to (nor can I find all of them), and I've have been complicit in sharing a fair bit of my music. Honestly I don't think the situation now is ideal because there are a lot of things vk bands (and the industry in general) can do and should be considering to mitigate the problem. So there's still work to be done. All I'm just saying here is that I'm not convinced by the usual self-righteous rhetoric that attempts to justify unregulated filesharing, and hopefully fans can endeavor to do a little more to support their favorite bands.
Tl;dr: The pseudo-utilitarian argument of 'small harm is justified because of bigger good' fails because (1) the good can be brought about, or at least reasonably approximated, via other less damaging ways today; (2) it's highly suspect if the harm is in fact smaller than supposed good.

I don't see why it's so hard not to respect the band's wishes.
 
It's their music, not ours.
 
Some bands don't care, others clearly do.
 
Music should not be free, it's the product of their hard work, and should be treated as such, a product that in order to enjoy/obtain, pay the money you're supposed to.

For a second there I thought the only new releases this year I got were XAA-XAA's... but after thinking about it a bit, I remembered others.

★★★★★
ザアザア - ララララ (can I put it above 5 stars? lmao)
ザアザア - コワイクライ
 
★★★★☆
ザアザア - どしゃ降りの彼女 (agreed that it would be 5 stars but 夕焼け is meh)
えんそく - えんそくの大予言
GAGA - 恍惚の花－コウコツノハナ－(1st & 2nd press)
ヒステリックパニック - うそつき
 
★★★☆☆
マイナス人生オーケストラ - 心中 (the recording quality on some of the songs knocks it down a lot)
クレイドル - デタラメ。ベスト (ok bear with me: for the genre and style they are it's pretty good. In general though? Ehh, I'd knock it down .5~1 stars.)
ワンネス - 嘘つきの作法
 
★★☆☆☆
ワンネス - GO!!
DADAROMA - dadaism#1
 
★☆☆☆☆
サウイフモノ - UN-DEAD HOUSE
 
 
?????
BLESSCODE - Mindcore and BLESSCODE - Bizarre because I haven't given those two a really thorough listen. But I enjoyed them.


 
I think that might be it for what I've gotten?
I'm going to grab Yeti's new mini-album soon.
Shounenki's CD is in the mail but I already anticipate putting Shounenki rather low based on the previews...(._.; ) 

I honestly haven't listened to many recent releases but here's what I have thus far   ★★★★★
ギャロ - INCUBUS
ギャロ - 黒鶏維新-大阪篇-限定音源 [ie rerecorded version of ALICE IN DEAD END]
ザアザア - コワイクライ
AvelCain - 折り紙

★★★★☆
ザアザア - どしゃ降りの彼女 (would be 5 stars but 夕焼け is meh)
SCAPEGOATxギャロ -『PSYCHO RxPISTS-魔宴-』
SCAPEGOAT -「デキソコナイ」の「林檎」
ギャロ - 黒鶏維新-名古屋編-限定音源 [ie rerecorded version of 調教師] ALSDEAD - INAZUMA
えんそく - えんそくの大予言

★★★☆☆
DADAROMA - dadaism#1
ギャロ - 黒鶏維新-東京編-限定音源 [ie rerecorded version of 東京シンデレラ]
Develop One's Faculties - hope

★★☆☆☆  
★☆☆☆☆
MEJIBRAY - ネペンテス

☆☆☆☆☆
MEJIBRAY - 盈虧

For a second there I thought the only new releases this year I got were XAA-XAA's... but after thinking about it a bit, I remembered others.

★★★★★
ザアザア - ララララ (can I put it above 5 stars? lmao)
ザアザア - コワイクライ
 
★★★★☆
ザアザア - どしゃ降りの彼女 (agreed that it would be 5 stars but 夕焼け is meh)
えんそく - えんそくの大予言
GAGA - 恍惚の花－コウコツノハナ－(1st & 2nd press)
ヒステリックパニック - うそつき
 
★★★☆☆
マイナス人生オーケストラ - 心中 (the recording quality on some of the songs knocks it down a lot)
クレイドル - デタラメ。ベスト (ok bear with me: for the genre and style they are it's pretty good. In general though? Ehh, I'd knock it down .5~1 stars.)
ワンネス - 嘘つきの作法
 
★★☆☆☆
ワンネス - GO!!
DADAROMA - dadaism#1
 
★☆☆☆☆
サウイフモノ - UN-DEAD HOUSE
 
 
?????
BLESSCODE - Mindcore and BLESSCODE - Bizarre because I haven't given those two a really thorough listen. But I enjoyed them.


 
I think that might be it for what I've gotten?
I'm going to grab Yeti's new mini-album soon.
Shounenki's CD is in the mail but I already anticipate putting Shounenki rather low based on the previews...(._.; ) 

For a second there I thought the only new releases this year I got were XAA-XAA's... but after thinking about it a bit, I remembered others.

★★★★★
ザアザア - ララララ (can I put it above 5 stars? lmao)
ザアザア - コワイクライ
 
★★★★☆
ザアザア - どしゃ降りの彼女 (agreed that it would be 5 stars but 夕焼け is meh)
えんそく - えんそくの大予言
GAGA - 恍惚の花－コウコツノハナ－(1st & 2nd press)
ヒステリックパニック - うそつき
 
★★★☆☆
マイナス人生オーケストラ - 心中 (the recording quality on some of the songs knocks it down a lot)
クレイドル - デタラメ。ベスト (ok bear with me: for the genre and style they are it's pretty good. In general though? Ehh, I'd knock it down .5~1 stars.)
ワンネス - 嘘つきの作法
 
★★☆☆☆
ワンネス - GO!!
DADAROMA - dadaism#1
 
★☆☆☆☆
サウイフモノ - UN-DEAD HOUSE
 
 
?????
BLESSCODE - Mindcore and BLESSCODE - Bizarre because I haven't given those two a really thorough listen. But I enjoyed them.


 
I think that might be it for what I've gotten?
I'm going to grab Yeti's new mini-album soon.
Shounenki's CD is in the mail but I already anticipate putting Shounenki rather low based on the previews...(._.; ) 

MUCC - Shangri-La [Limited Edition]
MUCC - THE END OF THE WORLD [Limited Edition]
SiM - Angels and Devils
SiM - i AGAINST i 
ザアザア (Xaa Xaa) - どしゃ降りの彼女 (doushaburi no kanojo)
nüe - サイレン (Siren)   And a used copy of 激楽隊 (GeKiGaKutai) - 東京 (Tokyo) from da rarezhut. Yay for birthdays~.

Sel'm and Minus Jin-Say Orchestra both have see-through CDs as well!

XAA-XAA - Doshaburi no Kanojo

It's from a Oneness in store event back in march, but it's probably my favorite picture I've taken with any bandman. 

Oneness's GO!! in all types with Like an Edison and ZEAL LINK comment DVDs.
XAA-XAA's Doshaburi no Kanojo x5 (my copy, friends' copies) + my in store tickets
GAGA's second press of the single in the limited purple cover.
Random free CDs that like an edison gave me.
Also, not pictured, but I bought Oneness' tour pamphlet and some cheki partially in order to get a two shot with Syuma (it was totally worth it), partially because I wanted those things.

Oneness's GO!! in all types with Like an Edison and ZEAL LINK comment DVDs.
XAA-XAA's Doshaburi no Kanojo x5 (my copy, friends' copies) + my in store tickets
GAGA's second press of the single in the limited purple cover.
Random free CDs that like an edison gave me.
Also, not pictured, but I bought Oneness' tour pamphlet and some cheki partially in order to get a two shot with Syuma (it was totally worth it), partially because I wanted those things.