Buy music? Are you joking? What are NicoNico and YouTube for, then?

Ohhh this is just marvelous. I’m always overly grateful for all of the VOCALOID producers work; they are, after all, responsible for making my music life extremeely colorful…so I definitely want to help.

YESS,,,I can then in a way…thank you for the info.

@Akita Neru
Crazy ungrateful louts. The producers are overly responsible, if not entirely responsible, for making VOCALOID music such a smashing success and an overly source of music artistry. Without them, you won’t be able to enjoy such music, and thus say bye-bye to your favorites.

They are people too, and as much as perhaps some of them wants to share the world their works, they still need basic necessities and of course, things that they will want and need. Do not go taking such works for granted! As for me, I am eternally grateful to them for providing such music, and using Miku as a medium of deliverance. I want to help them as much as I can, so that they could produce more and more. Definitely the set of words I used are not foreign to you, but please, be considerate of the work these guys do to make our music life, Miku, and VOCALOID as vibrant and as colorful as ever.

If in this simple way, I could “purchase” and they will still get paid, then I am helping, aren’t I…??

Ahhh, finally, time to get this…
http://karent.jp/album/1140

Cannot get it from here. So I’ll ask a relative from the US.

@Akita Neru: For shitty lower quality music that wastes bandwidth (some ISPs have bandwidth caps). And not all of the music created is on Youtube or Nicovideo. There’s over 200,000 reported known songs using Miku’s software, but only around 50,000 on nicovideo. Most of the music you’ll find on Karent is not available anywhere else.

Lower quality means nothing for Miku, since her quality isn’t very high. Maybe it makes sense for modern high quality vocs like IA, but surely not for Miku. It is like watching 480p video on 1920×1200 screen.

And amount- doesn’t really matter. Best hits always gets reuploaded to somewhere, and good thing always becomes a hit (but not the opposite, not any hit is good). And hell, 200000 songs using only Cyan one, plus tens of thousands songs by other vocs, plus covers? I’ll need more than a month, 24/7 to just listen 10-second previews of every frickin’ song! And most of it is Yowane-style (sorry, Haku) poorly tuned, pitched or composed crap!

Come on, no more pirates on Mikufan? Nobody here have ever downloaded music, films or manga without paying? Played pirated games? Used Pocaloid? Nobody have stolen something just because you can? Boooring. Gone sleeping.

I used it to buy “World is Mine” and “Torinoko City”. This is to support Miku and the people responsible of doing so.

@Akita Neru
Sure, everyone is perhaps guilty of having downloaded a music, PV, an album or even an entire concert featuring several VOCALOIDs. But do you really think it’s okay continuing to do so? Shame on you for having a lot of opportunity to support these artist assuming you are where I think you are. Considering the number of VOCALOID songs available out there, I can definitely say not all not “best hits” are sheer junk, especially when you know what they mean to say. A lot of great songs are unpopular, not even uploaded on both the sites (I know, I know a lot of such songs that are never placed). Please do not assume that perhaps most of which are crap, when it looks like you do not even understand most of them. No one is asking you to try and listen to every preview; that will definitely eat your time away. You may think it’s outrageous to give your money to artists who you think composes crap, but at the very least do the artists who do your favorite musics a favor and help them. A lot of people think like you do, thinking it’s okay to continue on getting copyrighted content just like that, but all of the entertainment industry, not just music, suffers, as you may know well, severely for this freaky piracy. Again, do them a favor. I’m glad not the whole world thinks like you, or else nothing would have ever gone from their start.

I do not have much to say about your preference of Miku, since you seem to care most about the voice quality, of which I will not reprimand. However, for people who love well defined and whole sound being delivered to them, of course getting the best quality is definitely the best. Try playing Tell Your World on a high-end entertainment system, and you’ll see anything below what the artists really offer will sound like hell.

@FatWave: do not understand songs? I know japanese, because, well, I AM japanese, lol.
Vocaloid? As favourite music? ROFL. Real man have emotions, which Vocaloid and UTAU still can’t imitate properly. Emotion is most important part of music.
Entertainment business suffers? Nope, it is in its full bloom! One or two (*million) pirates can’t hurt it much.
Yup, not all hits are junk, not even a quarter of them, this was my mistake to write about that in this manner. Sorry.
I buy something when I really like it. F.e. I’ve used Miku on Pocaloid, but didn’t like it. But I liked Iroha. And now, I have an official box lying somewhere. I still make music using Pocaloid (Vocaloid have got some unsolved bugs), but I’ve supported developer because I liked their work.

@亞北ネル: Interesting, Russian IP and email.

@jrharbort don’t spoil the fun!

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Sweet, definitely going to do this. Thanks for the heads up!

I wish Odds & Ends was available. I’m not going to spend up to $30 dollars to buy the physical CD for one song. They need to put it on iTunes or Amazon already.

I’ve naught the need to convince fools insisting that piracy and the like is “alright” because “it doesn’t hurt much”.

I won’t even bother arguing about piracy on internet. Its just not worth it.

Anyway, screw Amazon for making this US only.

Ah well, I still have my beloved Spotify…All hail Spotify Premium!

When the iTunes Store finally launched in my area, I was glad that I’ll be able to buy music in order to support them, much more when KarenT added their music selections in the newly opened stores. and yes, most of my friends were surprised when they knew that i buy music. as for Amazon, I’ve never had any luck buying music from there but I’ll check again…

Well thanks for the heads up. I’m definitively going to check this out perhaps I’m not too late.