Yeah, I would have bought all his music on Bandcamp if it weren't so costly. I think Hiroki Kikuta's stuff is also pricey on there. Maybe since in Japan it's not uncommon for single disc soundtracks to cost 2500 yen or so, they think their Bandcamp pricing is reasonable, or at least not exorbitant.
I'm guessing Nakano is doing 3000 yen for this because it's 24-bit/96 kHz, but A) that's still expensive compared to most Western releases in the format, and B) even accepting the presumption that 24-bit/96 kHz can sound better (which is a controversial statement, to say the least), given the age of these recordings I'll be very surprised if this isn't 16-bit/44.1 kHz that's been upsampled, which drastically undermines - if not negates - the whole premise of using it at all, let alone charging a premium for it.
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