The Bootleg market is still alive and well as there are a number of quality boot labels and vendors, mainly from Japan, who are issuing excellent quality silver bootleg titles for those of us who still enjoy physical product.
I have collected bootlegs since the 70's white cover vinyl days and rather than killing the silver disc bootleg collectors market the torrents have actually fed this market with high quality recordings that boot labels are pressing onto silver discs.
While you can still get poor sounding titles on silver disc the quality of the recordings has increased substantially due to the sharing of ROIO recordings on the torrents.
Bootleg labels have the luxury of cherry picking what recordings they want to press onto silver discs now so the chances of getting stuck with a poor recording these days is much less then pre-internet days.
There are also numerous resources on the internet where you can find bootleg reviews like this website
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www.collectorsmusicreviews.com]
and also website resources that let you hear clips of the bootlegs before spend your hard earned money like gigijapan
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www.giginjapan.com]
JMO but there has never been a better time to collect silver disc bootlegs then now with the quality of the recordings and resources we have at our finger tips.