.hack music

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:06 pm

End of a Shadow wrote:I dead serious when I said I bought it for $12 plus tax at Suncoast. It's .hack//SIGN Volume 1, and it's the actual CD. Its not copied, and Suncoast aint a retail store to sell bootlegs.

I'm sure it is legal. I was just unaware that they were selling the OSTs separate from the pre-order bonuses.

ichi · Post by **ichi** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:08 pm

You mean the Special Edition boxes? Yeah, I thought that was the only place too, but if Suncoast has it then....GOTTA GO NOW!!!

Hema · Post by **Hema** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:03 am

The cd's I bought off of eBay are not bootlegs at all. They sell the cd's seperate as well at Amazon.com, Half.com and some other "Official" Anime webstores.

Duskino · Post by **Duskino** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:31 am

Now that we're talking about the soundtracks...

Has anyone seen ths second SIGN soundtrack anywhere?? I know you could get it with the second DVD, but that would be way over what I have (...being poor sucks). So, is the second one out for sale, or is this a hopeless case I'm speaking of : P

YashaOokami · Post by **YashaOokami** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:38 am

Both first and second SIGN osts have been out for a very long while.
I know of two places...and I checked at the moment,one of those place's site is down,bummer,but the second place is of course Ebay :/

Jejune · Post by **Jejune** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:13 pm

Well, when I was talking about bootlegs before, I was referring to the link in the post above mine. I don't know anything about the Suncoast CDs, so I can't really say anything. ^^;

I do stick to what I said about eBay, though - it is possible to find legit CDs there, but it's extremely difficult. Of the auctions on eBay right now for .hack soundtracks, I found exactly one that was, without a doubt, authentic. There were two others that looked like they probably were, but only because one had, according to the seller, come with the special edition of a US DVD and the other was a single, which bootleggers usually don't bother with. All the others I saw were bootlegs. --;

One thing to keep in mind if you buy imports: if the identification number for the CD (sorry, I don't know the proper term ^^; ) begins with something like HO- or ALCA-, it's a bootleg. The ones for all Japanese .hack CDs start with either VICL- or VIZL-.

BlackroseLover · Post by **BlackroseLover** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:42 pm

ok thank you that is all I needed

Hema · Post by **Hema** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:10 pm

Jejune wrote:if the identification number for the CD begins with something like HO- or ALCA-, it's a bootleg. The ones for all Japanese .hack CDs start with either VICL- or VIZL-.

How sure are you about this? Is it for all .hack cd's? I have other imports with numbers like, A8, CV, and GM. Sadly to say, and I hope they're not...but my .hack soundtracks have ALCA -_-

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:17 pm

All of my .hack CDs (//SIGN OSTs, Extra, Liminality, and the Game OST) are legit. In the process I can confirm that they all start with VICL, except Liminality which is VIZL

Hema · Post by **Hema** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:25 pm

hmm...Does it make a difference in quality? Mine play fine ^.^;' Oh, and when you call cd's, bootlegs, do you mean they were burned off of the web?

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:27 pm

It merely means they're illegal outside of Taiwan, and the profits do not go to the music composer whatsoever (this is why they are disapproved of)

Hema · Post by **Hema** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:47 pm

Ok, my mother helped me find this out. ALCA stands for the record company that produced the album (cd). It DOES not mean that the cd is a bootleg. Check any other cd's that aren't international ones. Also, a store advertised in the popular, Animerca Magazine, http://www.asylum-anime.com/ sells these cd's with the SAME exact numbers that are on my .hack cd's. In conclusion, ALCA does not stand for, "bootleg recording".

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:10 pm

Hema wrote:ALCA stands for the record company that produced the album (cd). It DOES not mean that the cd is a bootleg.

Not specifically. However, the record company that owns the ALCA tag is a known bootlegger, and as such, it pretty much means that it is a bootleg.

As for Asylum-Anime, they are clearly not aware, or they do not care, that they carry illegal bootlegged CDs. Infact, many Anime distributors in the US (Planet Anime, etc.) distribute these illegitimate CDs, almost certainly with the full knowledge that they are bootlegs.

BlackroseLover · Post by **BlackroseLover** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:19 pm

all I asking for now is an exact CD NAME if you arent going to put one then SHUT UP ALREADY

ichi · Post by **ichi** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:22 pm

.hack//SIGN OST 1