Legal Bootlegs?

[Guest The Trooper]

Hi, i've been recently looking at "bootlegs" and heard that many of them are illegal. yet there are plenty of legal metallica bootlegs and pre-warning Green Day. So does anyone know of any decent bands that allow legal bootlegs from concerts? cheers

[Liam]

Not exactly the same, but to combat extortionate illegal bootlegging of thiers shows, Pearl Jam have legally bootlegged most of thier later gigs (some from 2001 and some from 2003), and sell them. They are pretty cheap depending on where you buy them from (I got a 3 CD Penn State live show for £8.99...so 3 hours of a band live that I love for £8.99 is quality)

[K]

If anyone wants to post links to some bootlegs, I'll allow it, as long as these shows aren't available to purchase anywhere. If that makes sense.

At leats until someone tells me off.

So don't post those pearl jam ones.

[Guest The Trooper]

in that case, here's a link to some Live Green Day songs http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/mp3/

[apsham]

Oh sweet jesus, thank you. They played King For A Day\Shout at the Quebec City show that I was at and I wanted to hear that again forever.

[Guest Booker T & The MG's]

I've found a few browsing the net over the years.

Garbage Collecter

Fantastic Garbage site with over 30 live show bootlegs from all points of the career.

Various Hole

The Glastonbury tracks especially are good.

Various Hole

Kraftwerk at Tribal Gathering 1997.

Only half of there set but really good. There was about 5 more Kraftwerk bootlegs that I've got, but the sites are all down.

New Order - Cleveland 1989

Nine Inch Nails - Portland 1994, Raleigh 1996, Pittsburgh 2000, Fresno 2005, Davis 2005.

Pittsburgh is pretty poor quality, the rest are really good quality.

Various Rammstein

A LOT of Rammstein live shows.

Tons Of Various Dance Sets

Slam! Forums has tons of links to bootlegs of dance sets.

Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II

For anyone who does'nt know, the Smashing Pumpkins in 2000 released a semi-official bootleg for FREE on 25 Vinyls with orders to distirbute the CD's complete with artwork across the net. There record company would'nt give them permission to release it officially, so they did it through there fanbase for free. Anyone with a passing interest in The Pumpkins should check it out, there's some gems on it.

If any of them are available to buy I will take them off straight away. I'm 99% sure they all are'nt. I'll keep looking for ones I've found in the past.

Edited September 9, 2005 by Booker T & The MG's

[whiskers]

If anyone wants to post links to some bootlegs, I'll allow it, as long as these shows aren't available to purchase anywhere. If that makes sense.

At leats until someone tells me off.

So don't post those pearl jam ones.

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[Guest Locutus of Borg]

Archive.org - Just search for the band and depending on their taping policy and popularity, may return quite a few results.

FurthurNet - Similar to Napster, but free. Contains a database of around 200 bands (I think) that allow tape trading to be searched for and downloaded.

I've found lots of good stuff from both of those sources, both popular and unknown. They both can take a little time downloading, though, depending on the show and traffic on the sites, etc.

EDIT: If you have a question about whether or not a band's bootleg is legal, check the band's website. Most of them have a taping policy listed on their website. All of the bands listed on FurthurNet have policies allowing tape trading, so they're all legal. I don't know if there are any illegal bootlegs on Archive, but I've never seen any.

Edited September 10, 2005 by Locutus of Borg

[Herr Matzat]

If anyone wants to post links to some bootlegs, I'll allow it, as long as these shows aren't available to purchase anywhere. If that makes sense.

At leats until someone tells me off.

So don't post those pearl jam ones.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure it's legal to trade them, as long as the bootlegs aren't of the current tour (IE, the ones currently on sale.) I think the 2000 and 2003 boots are fair game for traders now.

I may be wrong, though.

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Edited September 10, 2005 by Michael Matzat

[Guest The Trooper]

i was thinking of bumping this topic but thought it would be a waste without another link... then i found this

Right Here

it includes the incredibly rare Governator and We Are The Champions

EDIT- I forgot to say it's by Green Day

EDIT 2 - Here are some better Quality songs Just click here

Edited September 11, 2005 by The Trooper

[K]

Anyone got any others?

[Guest daniel]

Metallica are well known for allowing bootlegged concerts to be downloaded. http://www.4horsemensite.com/ is a well known site for fans to go and download a monthly bootleg, there's also www.livemetallica.com or the vault.

[tristy]

http://thenineinchnailswebpit.retetched.co...legarchive.html

Has shows from 1988 to 2005. I don't know if it's legal or illegal, but I'm pretty sure Reznor doesn't care. So enjoy. Most shows are FLAC but there are a few in MP3.

[Steeb]

The Comatorium

That section of The Comatorium offers hella loads of TMV bootlegs, trades and requests. Mixture of kinds, mainly MP3's though. Some FLAC.

[Psicosis]

http://therootslive.com/shows/ for live shows by The Roots.

[Guest Takayamanofear]

I am not going add anything to the conversation but isn’t legal bootleg a oxymoron?

[tristy]

No. Bootleg just means it's not officially recorded by the band or anyone associated with the band, or in other cases with a movie or something. Doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal.

[apsham]

To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs compact discs and tapes.

It's supposed to mean that it's illegal, and back in the day bootlegs went around when we didn't have CD's and the internet or such. Now that we have that today and the industry changed so bands allow this stuff, because they see the benefits, it's still called bootlegging since it's basically the same practice, just allowed. Too lazy to change the name of it I suppose.

[Venom]

The Arrogant Sons of Bitches.

http://snevesneve.com/asob/