well, this is my first post here since 2015... hi again everyone..?
i need help about something important to me:
basically, i've had for years a Huge collection of Touhou Doujin Albums in my library, that back then i just downloaded from various places, mostly back between 2013 (when i found out about touhou) and 2015.
i do try to always buy any music i have whenever possible, really, but i was still relatively new to buying music, and to properly researching things around the internet, and was used to the convenience of downloads from digital stores rather than physical albums, and it was hard to find them, almost none of them where on sites that whould ship internationally... although i always kind of had the intention of buying them eventually, i just kept delaying it and putting it off and off...
well now, i want to finally come clean and properly buy and give support to all the awesome and very talented artists from over 40 different circles, that have made some of my favorite songs ever that's i've been listening over and over for all those years since! so over the past 2 weeks, i've been on a strange quest all over the internet to find those albums, and it turns out, of course, most of them are outright out of stock for years in any store that i know about... if only i'd thought about that back then! i didn't knew any better, i'm not used to Doujin Music and i didn't think entire albums commonly became outrigt unbuyable if you wait too long... i know buying them is obviously what i should have been doing from the start, but i really want to at least do the right thing now! i've only found about half of them so far...
i know about, and have checked the following sites:
-Animate
-Melon Books
-Tora no Hana
-Akibao~
-Akiba Hobby
-Grep
-BOOTH
-Tano C Store
-Diverse Direct
-DLsite
-the official sites of the relevant circles
what others are there that could be selling Touhou doujin music? (physical preferred, but download is OK if no other option)
ESPECIALLY stores that have a chance of having old albums (like, before 2010) or albums from circles that since disbanded, that are out of stock elsewhere? any help is very immensely appreciated! really!
not interested in buying them second-hand/used from ebay or amazon.jp because then no money whould actually go to the artists anyway...
i currently am in the process of getting a Tenso (proxy shipping) account so stores that don't ship internationally aren't a problem.
by the way on that, has anyone here used Tenso before? how are they? i've read on their site that apparently they do open your packages before forwarding them for "checking"...?
as a last ditch resort, if i just can't find it anywhere, i thought about subscribing to that circle's Fantia (basically Japanese Patreon) for an amount of time that correspond to the album's cost, and at least support them and "buy" it that way... but virtually none of them seem to have an account there surprisingly... is there another such site or similar that most doujin circles use for crowdfunding? out of curiosity, is crowdfunding maybe concidered bad etiquette in the doujin community?