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Originally Posted by channy
This is so hypocritical and ignorant. Like, do you have to buy something to be a real fan?
I show my "loyalty" by constantly listening to her music. I think this is what truly makes you a big fan of an artist.
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And that's good on you, I suppose. Though I would hope the cherry-picked quotation wasn't ignorant, and I certainly don't think it was especially hypocritical (seeing as I said my view of downloading music was largely swayed by availability). Agree to disagree?
For me, I read the combination of downloading
everything while claiming to be holding out for purchasing some sacred ~Japanese version (when other options are available) as less a love for an artist and more a love for discovery. If that's how someone gets off, that's how they get off. Whatever. I just wish they wouldn't bother me about it.
Edit:
Re-reading my post, I suppose this is because I didn't explicitly link the two stipulations: downloading
everything while chasing ye old Japanese Version windmill. To clarify, it's less setting some bizarre monetary threshold for fandom and more about the empty promises/threats I've seen thrown around various communities in my time as an Ayu fan (with the looming spectre of the self-fulfilling prophecy--lamenting the lack of local availability while not buying what's available...which, in my experience, usually takes the form of thinly-veiled exoticism and racism that makes the sudden invasion of my fandom especially annoying... which I suppose is the actual problem rather than the downloading.
...That was weirdly cathartic.)