Shit cat, I was just talking about you with a buddy a couple days ago! Your ears must have been ringing. Yeah Japan is great, even their first album, which is really very different, is worth checking out. Hey, I still have a bunch of discs for you. I'm heading to Germany in a little under 2 weeks, so I'll get off my extraordinarily lazy ass and ship them out when I get back. I'll see if I can find anything interesting while I'm there. The really big record store in Stuttgart closed, but there's a smaller, even cooler one still open so I shall spend some time digging while I'm there!
Hey man! Good to hear from you. Nope, that's not me on the fb page for Ka-Spel. Just a coincidence! I've dramatically cut down on getting music, digitally or hard copy. I'm simply running out of room in my house and I've still got hundreds of CD's that I've never listened to or only listened to once. So now it's really just a case of listening to what I have. But thanks for reminding me of the remasters. I'll have to see which I want the most and see if I should just grab any of those those (as opposed to grabbing all of them, which is what I'd probably have done a few years ago!)
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