Whats good about bootleg records?
They contain songs and performances that had not been issued by the record company. Once a serious connoisseur of a certain artist’s music has bought everything in the standard record company back-catalogue, bootlegs are the only source of new and different-sounding material. Also, live concert bootlegs sometimes contain better performances than those on legitimate live albums (example: In the Round vs. Yessongs). There are also performances of great historical value that have appeared only on bootlegs.
