Once you get past the initial confusion at using a Japanese site it becomes a much better option to import it yourself.
So you can get plastic love for $32-33 shipped. Also they give everyone a 600 yen($5) coupon for signing up, and there usually are even better coupons available depending on how much you buy. However you can get up to 3 records for the same shipping price.
If you just get plastic love, the membership price(just make an account)+shipping comes out to around $37, that includes any tax. It was awesome cuz they had 20% off and a 2000 yen coupon which is like $17 so I bought a whole bunch of shit, like with shipping I paid like $18 for each and sold one for 45, then with variety I got for like 37 each and sold one for 70. Mine were a bit cheaper cuz they had a 20% off but they're usually running some sort of promotion, if you make an account you get cheaper prices and also you get coupons. What I did was I got 2 of each and sold the other 2 and it paid for my copies. This is like $18 and variety(the whole album) is like $34.
If you go to hhv.jp on desktop there's an English site, or you can go on Google Chrome and translate. You have to pay high shipping but it turns out to be very similar price to this, actually less. Enjoy the recommendations! 1.I posted this on another comment but will leave this here so you see it. This is now a fond inside joke of ours but I thought I would share a couple of the songs somewhat inspired, even if a little bit, by “Plastic Love.” I feel I should mention: This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, serious research. We concluded his current favorite tracks sounded too similar and we discovered the red thread connecting them all was Takeuchi’s popular hit, as Friday Night Plans’ cover softly played in the background. “I couldn’t find any song in my library that would nicely flow to and from,” I said. This realization happened while we were driving south of Kanagawa Prefecture for a weekend day trip, as I explained to him that I found it impossible not to group his songs together at the beginning of the playlist. Before Matsubara though, it was Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love” that went viral on YouTube in 2018.Īnd my boyfriend loves “Plastic Love.” In fact, he loves the song so much that any recent releases he enjoys enough to add to our collaborative Spotify playlist, we realized, vaguely exude the “Plastic Love” nostalgia of the ’80s (despite my boyfriend being a ’90s baby, but I have learned to not challenge him on that). Just as recently this past January, Miki Matsubara‘s “Stay With Me” was at the heart of a leading trend on Tik Tok and Instagram. In Japan, the last five years have seen a rise in new music inspired by the ’80s, especially city pop. With the millions of tracks at our fingertips, millennials and boomers alike revisiting their high school favorites, up-and-coming artists have the largest pool of inspiration in human history at their disposal. This is a common occurrence when listening to music, especially of the pop genre. It’s like a tickle in the brain, when you hear a song for the first time and there’s something that sounds familiar.