Hi there, welcome to J-eXodia:Resurrection!! After passing through a long way finding out how to blogging along with the widgets, RSS, google, etc, J-eXodia could finally back with it's new format. A weblog!!There're some reasons why j-exodia has become this way (using blogger as main media). But the main reason is because blogs nowdays are very powerful to talk about something as well as to 'sell' something not to mention it's easily configured and customized tools. It's really useful for people even for newbies to create a website without having to learn so many stuff about web programming, CSS, HTML,PHP,ASP, or whatever it is....besides:
- it doesn't need seperate hosting server
- have complete enough and wide-variety features to choose from
- google integrated
- full costumizable for advanced user
- very interactive
- easy to edit content or customize layout
- dll
From time to time, I will updating the list of my jmusic collections I owned which is viewable from the links beside... this whole list are sorted alphabetically. Most of them are downloaded from jpopsuki, tokyotosho, and nipponsei via torrent. In the future, I will do some review regarding my personal taste of musics, will post some popular new released albums or single, and I hope there'll be some of you who'd help contributing articles, reviews, lyrics, or anything (including downloads) related to jmusic. If you have one of these idea and willing to contribute regularly, please contact me to be added as an author of this blog (plain english only ^^)
I'm not an anti-piracy individual, nor supporting piracy in any ways...I just consider 'distributing' jmusic as it is, with or without cost. For some unfortunate people in certain countries, I found out that there's no way distributing jmusics other than downloading and distribute them freely (which is sometimes categorized as piracy or illegal distributions). For people who are living in some countries which afford to purchase the original copy, I hope you could still support the artist as an appreciation form of the hard works. In other circumtances and point of view, I too realize that not all of the money generated from the sold copies are paid to the artist. not even the large part. Sadly enough, the money you're paying for largely going into the records company's pocket. Only a small percentage are 'spared' for the artist....
End note related to my 'small shop':
One of the very interesting feature about this particular blog is that now visitors may view the list which will always be updated from time to time in realtime (published using google docs) and could fill out the ordering form instead of have to logging in into each email account to send email for placing orders...
OK enough for the intro, till this first post, the list is not finished updated yet. there're still so many titles not listed yet. In the end, please be patient and thanks a lot for the supports so that this blog could be established like this. I hope these improvement and features can be used to it's limit to provide you the informations you're looking for...
Thanx!!
PS: The logo of J-exodia is changed too, this logo is captured from a wallpaper (grangos...something..I forgot, sorry..) I found while surfing, and I think it's really match the theme. This logo is showing a 'tribalic style' dragon (and guess what...yes! it forms 'G' key in music theory!!)...very "japanese" I think...
1 comment:
Whether the industry (domestic and abroad) realizes it or not, File Sharing helped spawn the fan bases of many of these foreign bands and artists. Much of the music I listen to isn't in my home language, and had it not been for File Sharing and fan sites, I would have never discovered any of the overseas bands who's music I so greatly enjoy. The problem isn't the fans, its the record companies' slowness in giving us what we want and the ridiculously steep price of imported music. A fair percentage of J-Rock fans are between 14-17 years old, unable to pay the typical $40 price for CD's and have no credit card to order online with even if they did have the money for it.
More of the fans would be going out and buying the CD's if they could find them in a local store and at a reasonable price. When Free-Will-America re-released Dir en grey's "Withering To Death" for $14 in Hot Topic and F.y.e., it not only helped put the music within reach of longtime fans who otherwise couldn't afford their CD's, but it also helped create a new generation of fans too. U.S. releases are the best method for foreign bands to get a foot in the door of the American market. There's a wonderful opportunity for the distributors and labels to capitalize on the demand for Japanese music, if only they could see it.
The labels seem to only want to release the newest album, but the fans enjoy the older material as well and sadly the only way to find the older albums (and the Tour / PV dvd's) from those bands is to find it on torrent sites (or buy the $12 skip-riddled Taiwanese bootlegs on Ebay). I know plenty of fans besides myself who would be ecstatic if popular bands like Dir en grey and MUCC's full back catalogs were re-released in American stores at U.S. prices. Until the labels catch on people are going to keep pirating those older albums (and DVD's).
We fans aren't evil thieving bastards, we pay money to go to shows, we buy t-shirts and we're more than willing to pay for the albums -IF- they are within our price range. Don't punish the fan for the shortcomings of the record label, just give us what we want and nobody gets hurt, ok?
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