Interesting Resident Advisor article on bootlegged vinyl albums, with a focus on electronic music. It’s kind of a perfect storm – DJs and aficionados are always looking for rare tracks, digital masters are more widely available, the quantities are small enough that it’s rarely worth it for the artist to file lawsuits, and bricks-and-mortar music stores are already struggling, so they have an incentive to look the other way.
Link: “Bootlegs: Unauthorized at any speed”
Image: Vinyl spines by Flickr user aeioux, reposted here under its Creative Commons license.
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