I love you, King County Library System

[jeliza]

I found a S.E.S cd. Just, on the shelf, didn't have to request it or anything. On the rare occasion you can even find kpop that old for sale, it's usually *hella* expensive, and while I am trying to deepen my understanding of the history/development of kpop, there is really only so much budget I want to throw at it.

I doubt I will listen to it nearly as much as Brown Eyed Girls or f(x), but it's still awfully cool.

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[dr4b]

Oh that's weird. You can pick up super-old K-Pop like that for like $2 a CD in Japan, when you find them. I think somewhere in my boxes of CDs I've got some of their stuff that I haven't even listened to in 10-15 years (I say this just as 가까이 by s#arp randomly started playing on my iPhone, bizarrely, though) though I'm not sure if I kept it through all my moves or not.

[jeliza]

Japan is still kpop's biggest cash cow, though, so it makes sense that it is cheap and easy to find there, especially since groups from the big 3 labels all do Japanese albums as well.

Here, there are 3 shelves of kpop, only recent stuff, at the bookstore in the U District, and if I want to see more in person, I would have to drive down to California or up to Vancouver.