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It's all began when I was still in high school on 1998 or so. It was because of her Depend On You being featured in an RPG game, Thousand Arms. I said to myself that this song rocks. Then when my brother won a Dreamcast by playing n competing in Winning Eleven, That was my first glimpse on Ayumi Hamasaki. I saw her for the first time in her CM, A Song For XX, she was really cool in that hood. And then I asked the game store, that luckily also sell other Japanese stuff, if they sell Ayumi related stuff. They offered me my first Ayumi clips, n the Ayumi related stuff that I bought. The disc that I bought wasnt any avex original cd, it was compilated by the store. It consisted of her latest PVs at that time that the store could get (probably). I remember It just contained Poker Face, You, For my dear, n Trust, sum CMs such as Depend On You n A Song For XX, n I also believe that the cd contained one Utada Hikaru's PV. I was still in high school in my country. The cd was sold for Rp. 27.500,00. It equals to USD 3.
Her YOU PVs made me fall in love to her even more. I loved her since. The I started to buy her CDs beginning from A Song For XX. But, first time, I collected her stuff, it was all piracy, my first 3 ayumi albums, A Song for XX, Loveppears n Duty were all pirated CDs ^^. My first original cd of Ayumi is A BEST, but it was also original cd of my country version, I bought it for Rp. 70,000 (USD 8). I wasnt really satisfied with the cover n sound's quality of my country's version, but I continued buying her I am... in my country's version at the same price. Then, since my love for ayumi keeps growing n growing, I started to collect Singapore's version of all Ayumi's Album that I had collected so far. Singapore's versions were far more better than my country's version eventhough it cost twice my country's version. I was completely satisfied with the cover n sound's quality. But when RAINBOW came out, I am so disappointed that Singapore's version wasnt yet come to my country. Since I loved her so much and I really 3x wanted to her new songs, I had no choice but to buy my country's version of RAINBOW FYI, at first time, I didnt collect her singles, becoz in my country, they didnt sell singles, and if I bought singapore's version, it cost the same as cd, in other word, they were pretty expensive for me at that time. However, to my surprise, RAINBOW was the first cd in my country's version that i wasnt really disappointed at. The cover was not as ugly as before n the sound's quailty wasnt that bad, but still I bought RAINBOW singapore's version, then I continued to buy both version until A BALLADS, which was came out right after RAINBOW. Then My fisr Ayumi single was &, off course i bought singapore's version, since my contry didnt sell singles.
Then, I moved to USA in the middle of 2003. Becoz I just moved, I didnt know how to get her album here, my friend told me that i could get them at yesasia.com, but since at that time i never had any experience buying online, i didnt quite trust online shopping, instead i tried to go Tower Records, FYE n etc but they dont have it. (For God sake they had Namie AMuro's n Utada but not Ayumi). I skipped her memorial address until y Story came out to store. I said to myself that I couldnt wait any longer. I went to yesasia and bought those cds from them, overseas version ^^. I was disappointed too becoz the cover were broken, both, could u believe it? Becoz of that I rebuy those 2 cds in Japanese version ^^ and still continue, n evern preordered evrything since My Story in Japanese version.
That's all my story, hope u guys dont get bored reading all those stuff above.
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