The Movie Thread Reloaded

[Lurkndog]

Gencon and some anime cons used to be good for finding obscure overseas movies.

I used to get legit Japanese soundtrack CDs at anime cons. It's nice to have all the original soundtrack CDs for Cowboy Bebop. My avatar is from one of those CDs.

(And, yes, SM CDs were bootlegs. I got that info straight from the Japanese embassy when I was working for OTAKON.)

[Spooky]

Gencon and some anime cons used to be good for finding obscure overseas movies.

I used to get legit Japanese soundtrack CDs at anime cons. It's nice to have all the original soundtrack CDs for Cowboy Bebop. My avatar is from one of those CDs.

(And, yes, SM CDs were bootlegs. I got that info straight from the Japanese embassy when I was working for OTAKON.)

They WERE NICE bootlegs though. But even in the '90s we could figure out they were fake. Just the prices and when you had a few original Jap releases to compare to you pretty quickly figured the SMs had inferior sleeve printing.

I got legit Jap CDs through my local record store at approx AUD$70 a pop circa 1995. That was insane money then. But then again, regular CDs were $30 in Australia then too.

[Bedrockbrendan]

Gencon and some anime cons used to be good for finding obscure overseas movies.

I used to get legit Japanese soundtrack CDs at anime cons. It's nice to have all the original soundtrack CDs for Cowboy Bebop. My avatar is from one of those CDs.

(And, yes, SM CDs were bootlegs. I got that info straight from the Japanese embassy when I was working for OTAKON.)

We had a bootlegging store in Boston Chinatown (it might still be around, last time I was there was about ten years ago I think) that used to have rolling paper business cards. The vibe was pretty cool there lol

[Bedrockbrendan]

Gencon and some anime cons used to be good for finding obscure overseas movies.

I used to get legit Japanese soundtrack CDs at anime cons. It's nice to have all the original soundtrack CDs for Cowboy Bebop. My avatar is from one of those CDs.

(And, yes, SM CDs were bootlegs. I got that info straight from the Japanese embassy when I was working for OTAKON.)

They WERE NICE bootlegs though. But even in the '90s we could figure out they were fake. Just the prices and when you had a few original Jap releases to compare to you pretty quickly figured the SMs had inferior sleeve printing.

I got legit Jap CDs through my local record store at approx AUD$70 a pop circa 1995. That was insane money then. But then again, regular CDs were $30 in Australia then too.

Most of the bootlegs I have seen haven't been very good. But then even some of the officially released DVDs and VHSs haven't been great either. There are even some up on amazon streaming that I would swear are bootleg copies I have seen before

A few years ago there was actually a big issue with amazon merchants. For a while if you saw like Wing Chun for sale, you'd get a legit copy. But I had to order like three in a row once because I just kept getting bootlegs with the really bad coloration and distortion (and it wasn't out of region or anything it was just one of those shitty bootleg companies like Bonzai). I think bootlegs serve a function. But it was pretty surprising to me that I was thinking I was getting a legit copy of a DVD and ended up with a bootleg instead