/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I already asked this question:
https://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/S10392269

Please don't steal my threads.

Because they actually buy albums

>>11222181
because they arent stingy niggers

>>11222189
MUH YAMATO-DAMASHII.

*buys album for literally no reason to preserve Japanese pride*

I like that Japanese releases often have karaoke versions. Vocals annoy me; I want to listen to music, not someone talking.

>>11222195
What does Japanese pride have to do with buying foreign products?

>>11222189

Sometimes even a few hundred copies of the same album.

because,

>>11222204
Because they chide us baka gaijin for piracy. We're all content thieves to them. They get to make themselves feel better by spending literally $200 for a DVD box set. Meanwhile some Japanese investors are laughing their way to the host club.

Horizon was shit
also get

Why wouldn't they have bonus tracks? Or are you asking why they're called bonus tracks instead of just track nine and track ten?

>>11222287
He's asking why the Japanese versions specifically have bonus tracks.

The answer is because cheap bootlegs from China and Hong Kong.

I'd assume it's just a holdover from the old days, albums would release significantly later in Japan, adding bonus tracks was a way to discourage importing.

Because albums are more expensive over there, so it's an incentive to buy locally instead of importing it from elsewhere. This question belongs in /mu/.

>>11222230

They pirate like everyone else. They just don't talk about it so they can enjoy a moral superior erection when they talk about those thievish foreigners.

They just happen to have a different taste in piracy.

Remember that time The Beatles played in Japan?

>>11222230
How do Japanese people even purchase so much media when it's all so expensive? Do they all work two jobs?

I thought it was because it was so cheap to just import them so that gives them incentive to buy them from stores in Japan

there posting muddy dicks

Because albums cost more in Japan.

I think it's because it's cheaper to import CDs than to buy locally, so they add in the Japan bonus track to stop people from importing CDs.

>>11222189
>>11222197
For all the people out there saying that Japanese aren't stingy and that they actually buy albums and using that as an explanation:
It turns out its the exact opposite. Japanese people "need" this kind of incentive to actually buy albums. Prove me wrong, heres my argument.
It is a well known fact that the Japanese economy have been facing harsh times over the last decades (even before the American-European crisis)
Part of this is due to the deflation in their economy, which is caused by the fact that Japanese tend to put too much money on their banks and spend too little. With consume so low, the government has to take several actions to stimulate expenditure, or else the population would save most of their money.
This money-saving culture is not something new to the Japanese people, they've had this tradition since World War 2, because they needed to work hard to rebuild their country and couldn't afford to spend money carelessly within such hard times.
Thus, they had to save the most, in hopes of a better future for them and their descendants.
I studied most of these through Economy classes.
Furthermore, the Japanese are also experts in pirating stuff. In fact, many of the pirating software such as Share and Perfect Dark were developed by them. They can and they will attempt to share stuff using freenet and the like if they can get something for free.

Now what do you have to say these points?

>>11222457

>Now what do you have to say these points?

i bet you're a blast to hang out with

The Japanese tracks are hardly ever done well, just listen to the normal release.

>>11222181
because shitty normalfaggot music like your op pic is disgusting

>>11222457
truth

Excuse me but how is this otaku culture?

>>11223182

Lose yourself to dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HPWSNRYlA

UNTZ thread?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-J_wKuoiU

Do the Japanese like Kavinsky?

>>11222488
You certainly wouldn't be. You have nothing to respond with so you just insult him.

Why are Japanese pressings highly regarded?

>>11223225

They're kind of Jews, they need more incentive and need to feel special to the goyjin.

>>11223225
Who doesn't like Kavinsky?

>>11222181
Am I the only one that found this album pure shit? As in did they even know what they were doing-tier shit?

>>11223393
Almost certainly not, but more would disagree.

>>11223393
Contact was 5/5 ogay

>>11223393
Yeah it's shit

i also thought this album was shit at first, but now i am a DP otaku

>Random Access Memories

I don't like this. They've taken an analogy (computer memory) and brought it back to the basis of the analogy (human memories).

That's like if I called my gardening television series "The Broadcast" because broadcast originally meant casting seeds over a broad area, and also it's a television broadcast.

>>11224838
>stupid shit weebs say

>>11223393
its 2.5/5 wouldnt listen to any song more than once in a row.

>>11224893
Make that a twitter account so i can follow.

>>11225209
follow me @liquidret

>>11224893
Colony Drop has a Tumblr like this:
http://shitotakusay.com/

What does /jp/ think of the new Pet Shop Boys album?

>>11225209
I'm not weeb enough to keep an interesting and active twitter feed.

>>11224838

any The Weeknd otaku here?

kiss land is all about japan and otaku culture

>>11225221
ret? on my jaypee?

>>11225246
Would be solid without the vocals

>>11226200
Not really. The vocals make Thursday the best track on the album.

Axis is a good vocal-lite track.

>>11225106

I know, right?