Piracy these days

I remember what Kaoru said once about how he remembered being a kid and scrimping to go down to the record store to get a new album. Then he'd get to bring it home, and how awesome of a feeling that was. I remember that too..

The first jrock CD that i ever got was GLAY's heavy gauge, they were the first band that i looked into after seeing their poster at iwase.. Hisashi's blue hair was the first thing that caught my attention XD I still remembered buying that album and listening to it over and over again. But anyways, Kaoru said he thinks it a shame that the younger people now probably won't ever know what that's like, and I really have to agree with him.

Obviously filesharing has gotten me into the whole thing in the first place, but then it was like...you gotta be extremely lucky to find japanese band music, especially indies stuff. It wasn't like how it is now. I still remember the time when i got three GLAY songs and fell completely in love with them. Then I'll just wait on napster/audiogalaxy to search for songs for hours (and wait for another hour to download XD) and still be amazed with every findings.

Nowadays, you can download an album that has been released the same day it's out(or even been leaked one month early) and just forget about it. I've got so many songs on my hard drive i've only listened to once.. sad isnt it? I'm sure there are CDs that I would have loved if I had gotten them differently. Take SID's renai for example, I've only heard of them for no more than three songs, knowing they were gonna release an album, I just knew I had to get it. Now I would still listen to that album over and over, in my car as a whole..I think I appreciated the album more, and listened to it more because I had bought it without knowing what I would find on it.

So realizing this, Back to your roots!

I'd rather go back to world where music was a discovery process that was earned, instead of this crazy buffet where you get soo overloaded that nothing looks good anymore.