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Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recorded Sound Preservation Study
Uh guys,I seem to think you're missing a big point here.The brick and mortar music/video retailers,are every bit as much of a dying business model,as the big labels themselves.Everything is online these days.Hell,every Christmas season you hear more and more about how more and more shopping is done online.I collect records,by three modern bands,Jet,Green Day,and Blur/Gorillaz.I have been collecting Blur for eleven years.Every single record I have by these groups, I have bought off the web,mostly when brand new.Two weeks ago,I bought the new Jet album,in the form of a 1000 copy,numbered box set of seven 45s.
As an economic Austrian,I completely understand the changing nature of the market, and how you have to adapt to it.If you want to buy something,off of a website in Japanese,there is a lot of software avaliable to translate web pages into English.The ones you download for free aren't great,but they give you enough of an idea of what is said,so you can use the site.If the site has webforms that only accept Japanese characters,send them an email,and ask to have someone at their end set up an account for you.If you are serious,I doubt they would turn down your money.
Roger Kulp
Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx> wrote: David Lennick wrote:
> More to the point, and this is something I was going to mention but I got
> sidetracked, the "big companies" are all over the world so there's no reason a
> compilation of Bea Wain's Victors couldn't be in print only in Japan (which in
> fact it is) and we'd never know about it unless we did a lot of research.
... and we might not be able to buy it regardless of price. Dreamlife, a
Japanese firm, has in the past sold their opera videos through the
Internet and a brick-and-mortar outlet in San Francisco. Now, those
titles can be purchased only with a Japanese account from their shop in
Tokyo or from their WWW site which is effectively in Japanese only.
Mike
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