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I’ve been actually wondering about this for a while now, but does anybody know or have a good estimate on how much VK bands spend on their attire/clothing and stuff like makeup and hair? I recall people saying it was a couple of thousands dollars, but I can’t say if that’s true or not. It seems kinda right. I’m mostly just curious.

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I heard Xodiack spent about 10k on their costumes and recordings and made none of that back because of illegal downloads.

I know that Panic Channel got their costumes made for free by Mind Circus. And you can actually buy costumes like theirs from Mind Circuses site and when I was browsing, this dress Meguru was modeling in(It was used as his costume for a while as well) total about $1200, not including stuff like accessories.

But Some VK artists have friends that sew their costumes(for free) and some sew their own.

And for some they pay to have people draw out what they are going to make and etc.

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Quite many vk-artists do their own make-up and hair. :3 At least the smallest bands do it on their own because well, lol, why would you pay for someone to do something you can do yourself when you might not even have the money to live on your own.

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I remember Jimi had a blog entry about how Chemical Pictures just had to work in a store for a day or two promoting some brand and was given free costumes for their work.

I think it depends really on what connections people have. Some get free stuff, some pay out the nose and others make the costumes themselves.

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^ yea CPS's former member Jimi said stuff about artist friends making their PVs for free and stuff like that, and then not making any profit from CD sales & live shows.

And then there's an interview with Ayabie's Takehito on Rock & Read about when he was still in college, also doing band & part time job at the same time. He was so broke that he'd steal 10-yen coins from the register when the surveillance cam isn't at him and then return them on his payday. Classic.

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I’ve been actually wondering about this for a while now, but does anybody know or have a good estimate on how much VK bands spend on their attire/clothing and stuff like makeup and hair? I recall people saying it was a couple of thousands dollars, but I can’t say if that’s true or not. It seems kinda right. I’m mostly just curious.

you can lurk around for h. Naoto/sex pot revenge prices, but with shoots/PVs I'm pretty sure bands are rented clothing for free because it basically promotes brands to teenagers;

zoro has been noted with vivenne westwood accessories when they just started in a flawless british style, that I'm almost 100 % sure was paid by the label (since VW never made it back in their pics after that...)

by the way, is it true that band members put their fav brand names on the profile pages so tsuganari could give them appropriate presents, and Satsuki was ltr caught re-giving his fan presents to his GF who posted pics on mixi and everyone went bawwwwww?

I feel it's an important part of discussion here.

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by the way, is it true that band members put their fav brand names on the profile pages so tsuganari could give them appropriate presents, and Satsuki was ltr caught re-giving his fan presents to his GF who posted pics on mixi and everyone went bawwwwww?

I feel it's an important part of discussion here.

That's quite a poor example, Satsuki is just a sleazebag in general :')

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http://jrockdrama.tumblr.com/post/18308856745/abcs-of-why-kisaki-is-a-loser-and-a-twat

Why did they decided to change their name to mine D:

I am no way in shape or form affiliated with this tumblr.

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> Employs his fans as prostitutes at his illegal brothel

so basically UCP bands are all fan-formed?

> Only does music for money and easy sex with girls

omgwow

the rest is quite unfunny. (except for 12012 who tried to escape from him in murky jpop waters)

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I can't since i read that "A" part.

He destroyed his liver..., by STD ( :wat: ),

yet managed to stay alive this far :lol:

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> He destroyed his liver..., by STD ( )

look up hepatitis C

while not std itself, it's generally caused/worsened by drinking abuse and can be passed during sekshul intercourse.

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Lol,

About Satsuki, apparently after the eu gigs people have had staff walking up to them asking if they wanted to have sex with Satsuki (Just check tumblr, I've seen several livereports mentioning this :') )

And this: http://tanukiwww.livejournal.com/10870.html But I suppose you've seen that already :P

The costs greatly decrease if you're willing to take on a bunch of mitsu lol.

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> Remember when Satsuki was semi-relevant and didn't constantly fuck up?

ahahahaha.

yep, that's what I've heard about his marvelous adventures. such a cheap whore.

I wonder if he's gonna bang that 16 y.o. fingurl and are there any chances of their cam porn ending up in his tiny webshop

signed and numbered

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Lol,

About Satsuki, apparently after the eu gigs people have had staff walking up to them asking if they wanted to have sex with Satsuki (Just check tumblr, I've seen several livereports mentioning this :') )

And this: http://tanukiwww.livejournal.com/10870.html But I suppose you've seen that already :P

The costs greatly decrease if you're willing to take on a bunch of mitsu lol.

Hahaha! I hope he keeps this up

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Oo-okay, are they talking about [email protected] (Satsuki/Unite -fangirl) on LJ? Since that's probably the only 16/17-y/o "Henrietta"-named RES-stanner I *know* (Finland is a small country, don't ask pls)

Either way, lol@satsuki

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DAFUQ.jpg

Dafuq did I just read?

I checked some live reports on tumblr like Gizorz said and wow...people are actually saying she's mad she turned him down?

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I also think that visual kei is not that cheap trough... ~

But allways when I went to a concert in my country, the mangager asked us kindly tooo not destroy their dresses/outfits while we touch them(the fangirls xD)

and I also think that I read that re:dis disbanded cuz they couldn't afford this stuff anymore...to be visual and make music and make some part jobs...so I think its a pretty rough business....

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This is why i hate the vkei fandom >_>

Girls with overactive vaginasimaginations.

what's wrong

with an overactive vagina?

:(

*continues with Vagina Monologues*

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I checked some live reports on tumblr like Gizorz said and wow...people are actually saying she's mad she turned him down?

details please? i searched but didn't found anything

Basicaly just said that they were waiting for demachi, when some staff member came outside and asked some girl if she wanted to sleep with Satsuki, but she said no and apparently everyone thought she was crazy for saying no. But that's really all there is to it.

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Oo-okay, are they talking about [email protected] (Satsuki/Unite -fangirl) on LJ? Since that's probably the only 16/17-y/o "Henrietta"-named RES-stanner I *know* (Finland is a small country, don't ask pls)

Either way, lol@satsuki

Oh my god *hides her face* Finland is a TOO small country. I didn't want to know this!

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