Oh, the leaking drama is really wearying. And, quite frankly, I think all of us who are into visual kei got into it through PVs and downloads people uploaded. This kind of stuff is hard to find through the normal channels - I wouldn't have known about it at all if a friend hadn't sent me a bunch of links to Alice Nine PVs. My philosophy about this kind of thing is "try before you buy" - sample a band's work through downloads, and if you like what you see/hear, then support them and buy the physical copies. Plus, there's one more reason I've been appreciating uploads lately - the Super Drive of my Mac Mini, where I have my iTunes, has decided it doesn't want to work anymore. Downloading a digital upload of an album or single I've purchased through legitimate channels saves me having to put the CD in my PC laptop, rip the music with Windows Media, put the files on a flash drive and load them from the flash drive into the Mac. That's what I was doing for awhile - until I decided I shouldn't feel guilty about taking something I'd paid for!
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Oh, the leaking drama is really wearying. And, quite frankly, I think all of us who are into visual kei got into it through PVs and downloads people uploaded. This kind of stuff is hard to find through the normal channels - I wouldn't have known about it at all if a friend hadn't sent me a bunch of links to Alice Nine PVs. My philosophy about this kind of thing is "try before you buy" - sample a band's work through downloads, and if you like what you see/hear, then support them and buy the physical copies. Plus, there's one more reason I've been appreciating uploads lately - the Super Drive of my Mac Mini, where I have my iTunes, has decided it doesn't want to work anymore. Downloading a digital upload of an album or single I've purchased through legitimate channels saves me having to put the CD in my PC laptop, rip the music with Windows Media, put the files on a flash drive and load them from the flash drive into the Mac. That's what I was doing for awhile - until I decided I shouldn't feel guilty about taking something I'd paid for!