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We received some sad news over the weekend.
HearJapan [2], a digital music distribution service with a lot of Japanese pop/rock, as well as some interesting game and anime soundtrack selections, is closing down on June 30, 2012. In a statement on their website, they explain that one of the reasons they have to close down is that they invested a lot of money into a “2.0” site redesign (which launched back in February), and they’ve been unable to recover the costs for that update.
On a personal level, I’m saddened about this. They’ve released some good albums to the English-speaking market, including some [3] we’ve [4] reviewed [5] over the last couple years.
Again, however, we’d like to note alongside the folks at HearJapan that there are still two weeks left. So be sure to scour the site [2] and purchase anything you think you might want before the site shuts down!
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#1 Comment By wohdin On June 19, 2012 @ 1:47 am
You know, this is literally the first I’ve ever heard of this site. Why is that? I can’t imagine why such a service would go unknown for so long, unless they just didn’t offer enough, or couldn’t keep up with the pricing structure of services like iTunes.