Biggest Jpop Regret

[elaniel]

Thought this may be an interesting topic.

What's your biggest regret in Jpop? Whether it's buying an album that was terrible, losing a disc, lending it to a friend who never returns it, forgetting to order something and missing out on a first press, etc.

I have a few.

1. Back in 2001 when I started listening, I spent way too much money buying albums/singles by artists I had only heard one song by. Big waste of money as most of the artists I ended up disliking barring the one song.

2. Selling off my Namie Amuro / Koda Kumi / BoA singles. Last year I was really struggling for money and was moving into my own house and was offered a good amount of money for these and took up the offer. I now regret it as now I only own their albums/DVD's/Blu's. I've been tempted to rebuy their singles, but since most of the content has ended up on albums that have released since, I'll probably just go forward and buy their future singles, but not back catalogue. Plus, the cost involved could go towards other future releases. - Really breaks my heart to now only have their albums, but I should be lucky I can afford those as I know many people would love to be able to buy them but find them too expensive.

3. Thinking overseas versions aren't worth it and spending my money on all Japan Versions. Sure, sometimes the packaging quality is significantly better, but when a single is twice the price for a Japan version than an overseas version, sometimes I can wait now. I have a great TV/sound system and have hardly noticed any difference in quality between the two types in the last few years. Pre 2003, there was some poor quality on the DVD's, but nothing all that noticeable now.


I know this may be a silly topic, but maybe we can all use it as a way to rant over our regrets and maybe support each other with our silly mistakes in the past.

(*hint-hint* It's okay, elaniel. Don't worry about having sold those singles, it's good your moving ahead and not spending money on lots of back catalog titles) - I need some justification for not doing so LOL

[KarenPang]

buying all editions of singles with regards to most of the Johnny's that I support which was really crazy if not scary @_@

Sure the singles are OS press but everything all adds up . Also I freely buy singles as though they were free but in reality they ate up a lot of my $

So now I just buy singles from only 2 artistes & if an artiste has an OS press , I take it over a Japan press

[matt9210]

- I'm awful with money so was constantly buying CDs and selling them for less when I needed money. I'd be scared to see how much I've lost.
- Bought Ai Otsuka Love Letter Tour Premium Box for about £100 off YeaAsia. Watched it on my laptop which overheated and switched itself off, marking the disc. And I saw it on eBay for around £45.

[letter]

I don't personally have a regret, but I feel bad about my dad spending a lot of money on Japanese magazines that I ended up throwing away.

[Chiharo]

Originally Posted by matt9210

- Bought Ai Otsuka Love Letter Tour Premium Box for about £100 off YeaAsia. Watched it on my laptop which overheated and switched itself off, marking the disc. And I saw it on eBay for around £45.

Wow, I'd be REALLY pissed if that happened to me.

As for myself, I don't regret buying anything. The only things I do regret are getting Kalafina's Seventh Heaven CD cracked on the back of the case straight from CDJ. Also I myself have managed to accidentally slam the Red Moon booklet incorrectly against those booklet holders in the upper part of the case (I slid the booklet back wrongly resulting in one part of it above those holders and one under, then I couldn't close the case and instead of using my brain for thinking WHY I can't close it I just used my forced until it closed and it resulted eventually in the booklet being pressed in on sides and one of those holders being broken.)

LOL I know it's not a big deal (it's barely noticeable) but it still pisses me off because I'm really not strong on money and Kalafina is my favorite *input everything that has to do with music* and it really makes me mad to know all of my other purchases are intact but BOTH of Kalafina's CDs HAVE to be effed up.

[jpopfan]

My biggest regret was letting my brother borrow my cds while he had his Jpop/rock show on the radio. Some of them I still can't find like one of my Ayu first press singles of Rule and my Universe album by Kumi and the other ones now has cracks. But a lot of my cds I got back are now broken or cracked. It makes me upset every time and no one in my family understands why. A lot of them were first press editions and had to keep explaining how expensive these cds are..

[Twinkle !]

My biggest regret is letting my brother use my CDs playing music or see the booklet and my CDs were in awful condition , thank god he stopped messsing with my stuff the look so brand new

[thesweetseason]

Not buying that darn NEXT LEVEL USB! I was hinting at everyone left, right and centre to get it for my birthday, but it didn't turn up, and by then, I couldn't even buy it myself!

[qwerty]

Originally Posted by thesweetseason

Not buying that darn NEXT LEVEL USB! I was hinting at everyone left, right and centre to get it for my birthday, but it didn't turn up, and by then, I couldn't even buy it myself!

Haha, my biggest J-Pop regret is buying that USB. It was so outrageously expensive, and the CDs had versions that were of much better quality, so I regret buying it.

[Matthew]

1) Going through a period of buying all 3-4 versions of singles. Why did I bother?! Most of them are still sealed.

2) Paying full price for old albums when I could've got them dirt cheap at Book Off instead.

[dreamland2.0]

We kind of already have a thread for this
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84424

[elaniel]

Ah, I never saw that thread. However this one isn't necessarily just for purchase regrets. ^.-

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

got tricked by some record stores and bought some bootleg albums (which I thought were the legit ones) with the same price as the original ones.

So stupid.

[Earth_maiden]

Buying Ai Otsuka's 2008 live DVD, and some merchandise. Then getting over Ai Otsuka and being stuck with all this stuff I didn't want anymore. Ended up selling about $150 worth of stuff on ebay for $15. >_<

Same with my Miyavi stuff, I can't get rid of all these CDs I have.

[xLuna&1LOVE]

Buying Kanon Wakeshima's Shinshoku Dolce album... I gave it away as a 'gift'

[JackieRos]

I guess buying cds in general I don't even use them.
I rip them and stash it in the attic to gather dust.
Some of them I don't regret like ayumix 7 I haven't opened the cds but I don't regret it though.

[kumiko.koda]

I have sold CDs/DVDs from an artist because I wasn't interested in her anymore....
......but then the interest came back and I had to buy them again

I hope I won't make that mistake again.....

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

rnrc box set. seriously.

oh, and throwing away the plastic for the majority of my early Ayu purchases. haha

[Lady~Deviance]

I'm just going to list the items that I regret purchasing. I bought most of my collection from 'Book Off' in New York City. At least I saved a lot of money that way.

~My Entire Ayu Collection~
-A Ballads *First Press*
-A Best *First Press*
-A Song for XX
-Duty
-Rainbow
-Step you/is this Love?
-Far Away
-Rule/Sparkle *First Press*

~Koda Kumi~
-Best First Things 2CD+DVD *First Press*
-Alive/Physical Thing *First Press*
-Secret First Class Limited Live (DVD)

~Misc.~
Double - Wonderful
Double - Reflex *First Press*
TETSU69 - Suite November
L~Arc~en~Ciel - Awake

[Kazeyomi]

my whole jrock collection.
I totally lost all of my interest on jrock, especially on Dir en Grey (my favorite jrock band back then).

I don't have many CDs or DVDs but some of them are like first press and quite rare. I must sold them on ebay would be unfair keep them when someone else would like to own those albums.