「フリーダム / クロスロード・ブルース」 (Furiidamu / Kurosuroudo Buruusu) "Freedom / Cross Road Blues" Listeners has been a coin flip simulator. Some weeks, it's good. Some weeks, it's not good. But it's fun trying to figure out what it's trying to achieve here.
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「ハロー・グッドバイ」 (Harou Guddobai) "Hello, Goodbye" Soooo... yeah. Incoming rant.
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