Music in Japan (part 2)

After my friend found the goldmine of Japanese music, we started collecting videos at an amazing rate. We weren't picky at all, and essentially anything that came from Japan, we got the video and watched it. This included a lot of really terrible music videos, and since J-pop was the easiest to acquire, the majority of the collection was made out of that. Some of it was truly terrible and some was half decent.
After a while, we sort of hit a wall. Everything we heard of, we got. At one point, we had well over 300 Japanese music videos and estimated that we probably had one of the largest, if not THE largest, collection of J-Pop DVD quality videos in North America. At this time, my friend was my roommate, and we built a computer to store the videos, among other things.
When it was difficult to find videos, hunting for new videos or songs was a challenge, but when we realized we can get anything we want with almost no effort, it got less exciting. Once the novelty of collecting wore off, we sorta gathered a few artists worth remembering and tracked them, their side projects, recommended similar bands, and perused Japanese music that way. It was this point I started listening to Shiina Ringo, Pe'z, Polysics, RIP Slyme, the Brilliant Green, The Pillows, Bump of Chicken, Mr. Children, Blankey Jet City, and several others.