What is “Bootlegging”?
Essentially, bootlegs are recordings that have not been released by an artist’s main record label. They could be live recordings, studio outtakes, rehersals, or just jams. The source for these might be CD’s that are put out by various bootleg labels, tapes made by tapers at concerts, or tapes that one way or another “escaped” from the recording studio. Bootlegging is not, I repeat, not the illegal making and distribution of alcohol. Well, it is, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. If you think that was the definition, you’re in the wrong time and place. Go back about 80 years and go to alt.tv.dukes-of-hazzard. 🙂 [No, that newsgroup does not exist — please don’t e-mail me on that.] Well, then. What is bootlegging, really? Well, it’s something A LOT of people disagree with. Bootlegging is where people go into concerts, record the concert, then go and press the music onto a CD and, in turn, sell this CD for monetary profit. There is another type of “bootlegging”, which is prett
