This is bull. This has gotten me chuckling hysterically, nearly crying, gritting my teeth, biting my nails, and tugging at my hair all in the same hour.
I read up about this JS man, and he sounds like nothing more than another high paid (but apparently not paid enough) baby who looks high and low for another opportunity to make another money wall in his house through the art of fear and blackmail.
If there were tracks in the site that he disapproved of being there, that he worked on, all he had to do was request they be removed.
Many, if not most, of the OSTs on the site can only be located in Japan directly, assuming they ever got printed to disk. I'm a Digimon fan (Japanese version only), and was seeking a few tracks that I missed in my last visit to complete my (well....complete as best I could since not all were there) collection of tracks to enjoy on my ways to work or while I draw.
Now if I want those tracks, I have to pay for a round trip ticket to Japan, hire a Japanese to English and back translator, pay for a hotel to stay at for a day or two, and search high and low for the soundtrack I seek, assuming it's even in print or available anymore.
I did a quick bit of research in U.S. dollars how much that would cost me.
Round Trip Tickets to Japan: Estimated around $1000
Hotel in Japan for 2 days: Estimated around $200 (About $100/day)
Cost to hire Japanese translator: (Unable to locate exact info, but let's just assume around $15/h for 12 hours a day) $360
The actual SOUNDTRACK to get 1 track off of: $40.00!!! I'm not kidding you!!
So in order for many of us to get our OSTs now, assuming you can ONLY get them where they were originally printed (Many video game/anime tracks are Japan only these days) We'd have to pay around or over $1,600 just to get it!
While doing this research, I realized the site primarily had OSTs for video games and anime mostly originally printed in Japan, though it was originally for Kingdom Hearts stuff by the looks of it.
This moneybags is an American composer.
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Am I really the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?
I can FULLY understand if he wanted the AMERICAN sountracks to be removed. Maybe that he worked on.
But what the hell with removing music you can only get if you spend 1.6k to get, assuming it's even there. (I checked ebay for MANY of the OSTs I've seen here before and turned out either nothing or bootlegs, so do NOT start me with that shit!)
If the publishers of the OSTs had a problem, that's one thing. But this guy is an American bastard who only uses the power of fear to get what he wants. I'm getting a horrid image in my head of him as a child, being one of those kids I hate to see what into the store I work at, crying and screaming at his parents that he want something he can't have and threaten to cry and scream even more if they don't obey.
I'm obviously not the only ticked off person here.
Nor will I be the last apparently.
But this is totally wrong on many levels, especially since his name isn't on even 90% of the OSTs that were once displayed on the site for fans to have access to. Japanese tracks, or video game tracks made in Japan. Not America. Japan.
Am I seriously the only one here who sees this critical error?
I seriously need a drink. This is beginning to hurt my head.
I predict this post won't last long, but don't really care. I fear nothing.
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TL;DR version
epic failure on the "composer" side,
WTF on the website side.
need drink
the end
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