Live Bootleg Recordings - Does anyone actually buy them?

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I cant seem to find as many online on P2P as I thought. Yet theres plenty of traders pages. I just wondered if anyone actually bothers to download/Buy them. It seems to be something that is rarer these days, but shouldnt be due to Napster/Audiogalaxy/Kazaa/WinMx/ssk etc.
I always come across the attitude "you dont need to own bootlegs to be a real fan" and "why listen to inferior live recordings when the cd is better"
So whats your views on Live/Studio Bootleg recordings?

― Chrissie, Monday, 1 September 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's difficult to find stuff to download b/c most traders tend to be very much sticklers for quality, so MP3 compression doesn't cut it for them. Doesn't mean stuff isn't around, but if you want to be able to trade more or less with anyone, you pretty much have to be totally anal about your sources.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 1 September 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, by the way,

http://db.etree.org

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 1 September 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Whenever I walk into a huge independent record store I usually can find boots, but they are so costly and the quality is so lame I don't bother anymore. Some bands have dealt with the illegal recording by allowing people to bring in equipment, record and then trade, Clutch does a lot of this. Some bands are also running limited show only releases and selling them on tour.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 1 September 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, remember the days of Kiss the Stone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh yes the Italian company? Always great quality bootlegs. Whatever happened to KTS?

― Tom Proctor, Monday, 1 September 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the old vinyl bootlegs. Particularly when they're on splattery colored vinyl and have weird random cover art. I don't have a lot right now (two Cheap Tricks, a Who, and a boot LP of some of John Lennon's TV interviews and perfs.), but when I'm rich someday I'm gonna start collecting them.

Acid Mothers Temple and Guided by Voices are a coupla bands who seem to be into that stuff. Pressing their own live "bootlegs" onto cryptically packaged vinyl.

― some guy, Monday, 1 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm writing a book about electric Miles Davis right now, so I've been buying a shitload of live bootlegs of his, particularly stuff from 1969 and the mid-1970s.

― unperson, Monday, 1 September 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Last I heard about KTS they relocated their web stit/mail order address to Singapore (or Indonesia) and then went out of business.

My first few boots were of the plain white cover with a color (and by color I mean a B&W photocopy on a colored piece of paper) sheet taped to the front.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I love bootlegs. I own a ton of Zep, Dylan, and Stones (primarily from that unbelievable '69 tour, but also a couple of neat 70s things) bootlegs, among others.

Dylan has some amazing bootlegs. A lot of his greatest stuff can be found there. The Scorpio label (Genuine Bootleg Series, Tree With Roots, Genuine Live '66, Genuine Never Ending Tour) makes the most exhaustive, lovingly packaged boots I've ever seen; a feast for fans. Best label evah.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Live bootlegs should always be traded.

...and many are better than some of the studio material.

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It's difficult to find stuff to download b/c most traders tend to be very much sticklers for quality, so MP3 compression doesn't cut it for them.

Surely this is would be pure mentalism, given the quality of even a good mixing desk bootleg?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally - I have a small wealth of MP3 bootlegs - the quality of the file is virtually irrelevant with an audience recording.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/932-the-new-explosion-of-bootleg-vinyl/

― sleeve, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:30 (ten years ago)

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