This week, it went from the drawing board to reality with the launch of live.brucespringsteen.net. The site is offering downloads of most shows from the 2014 High Hopes Tour, a complete performance of Born To Run from a recent show in New Zealand and, in the first volume of their archival series, the launch of the Wrecking Ball tour at New York's Apollo Theater on March 9th, 2012. The shows are available via MP3 ($9.95), lossless ($12.95), HD-Audio ($19.95) and CD ($23).

This new live series was put together by nugs.net, an organization that's previously worked with Pearl Jam, Phish and Metallica on their own live downloads. In an interview with Backstreets, the site's founder and CEO Brad Sterling said he initially reached out to Springsteen's camp in 2009 and got turned down, but when he tried again this year, they were suddenly interested. It turns out that Springsteen changed his mind when he realized just how many of his shows were available on YouTube.

"He was like, 'We can do better than this. We own the masters!" said Sterling. "What's great is, he wasn't saying, '@#$%& those guys. Take that stuff down. Screw YouTube.' It was, 'If this is happening, we should be doing it officially.'"

The archive series may be starting with a relatively recent show, but expect them to dig deeper into Springsteen's history with future releases. "It's very exciting to think about the different eras that will be covered," said Sterling. "And what's really interesting is where the tapes are coming from. What's in the vault; what isn't. Not all of it is in their archives, so they are sourcing material now."

Future plans are vague, but Sterling indicated they are likely to offer famous 1970s shows that have circulated for decades. Those will presumably include Philadelphia 2/5/75, Passaic, NJ 9/19/78 and San Francisco 12/15/78. While most shows will likely be sourced from soundboard tapes, multi-track tapes and radio broadcasts, Sterling indicated that audience tapes have been used on past Nugs.net projects and they might be used again at some point for a Springsteen release.

It's also possible the series will release music that predates Springsteen's 1973 debut album. "I had a whole other career as a heavy-metal guitarist that never came out on record anywhere," he said earlier this year when asked about the possibility of releasing archival material. "There's tons of music. I never close the door on any of it."

In addition to concert recordings, the new website also offers high-resolution downloads of every album in Springsteen's catalog.



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YES YES a big sample of how other bands should follow ..

Agreed, this is a great show of respect for fans.

Download and CD ? Are you listening, Mick Jagger !!

20$ for a HD download? If you want get 5 or 7 1978 shows it's gonna get costly
Brooce please reconsider...

FYI, here's some Utoob links. If y'all got one of them tube to MP3 converter apps, you can listen to Brucie on your music player anytime y'all wish. These are great shows. Prime time Bruce.

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Not a Bruce fan but this is a great idea. Wish ABKCO and Crapple would do this too.

Has anyone dealt with these bell-ends ? I've ordered some Bruce Springsteen concert CDs from them, and they still haven't dispatched them ? These were ordered on 28/11/2014.

Have you contacted them?

Yes, and they're ignoring me.

I chased them five days' ago, and they came back with they're overworked. Now, 11 days after the order, they're not even saying, or stating, that the items have been dispatched, or anything else.

The Springsteen concerts are exclusively by this lot, also known as the Live Downloads Company. I'm really annoyed with them.

Apparently, these con-artists claim to do Pearl Jam and Metallica gigs too.

You pay for the concerts, they debit the money from your card, and then they don't dispatch.

I've decided to saturate them with emails.

I don't know whether Nugsnet or the artist is to blame. I've bought Pearl Jam stuff, and as you mentioned they use the same people as Bruce, and its always worked out fine. I don't know how long it took, but it all came and it was well worth the money. They are known as one of the bigger and better live download companies out there right now so I would put trust in them that it'll all turn out ok. The Bruce live series did JUST start, so it might not be a lie that they are overworked with it.

I've tweeted Bruce directly; this isn't on, in that I want to order more Springsteen gigs, and their service is poor.

Lol I don't think Bruce is going to respond.

I've sent them about ten emails in the last half hour, and they haven't responded. I'm disgusted at the poorness of their service. I hope Mick, Keith, etc don't deal with this lot.

I've also tweeted the CEO directly, of Nugsnet, Brad Serling, wanting to know if he's naturally dishonest. I'm really hacked off that thieves like this represent honest artists.