If only I got that lucky, the majority of the links that I find on those japanese sites end up being dead, so even if the song is free it only exists on some japanese guy’s dusty hard drive from 2014.

No idea what this subreddits rules are on sailing the sea, but I had some luck with a few from a new service I recently downloaded. More niche songs that don’t have a bandcamp release or a self hosted mediafire and are basically just random videos uploaded to NicoNico or YouTube couldn’t be found, but at that point I doubt the song was even produced beyond YouTube-level quality. Also note that most of the songs I’ve been downloading are very old and not QA’d at all, so I don’t have much input on getting new songs.

Me with old Vocaloid music, where the highest quality file available in existence is ultra compressed 2011 quality youtube rips.