Re: 1968: NME and David Frost show
Date: October 21, 2006 02:09
Alimente:
You can call it whatever you see fit (as I would call your response something along the lines of sour grapes). As for those collectors obtaining their stuff illegally, that simply is not true in a significant portion of the cases.
What is most often the case is some collector has lent or generously given a copy to someone, in a trade or otherwise, and has accepted their word that they will not distribute it, which the second party subsequently values as highly as dog shit and turns around and sells or distributes the material for their own profit or ego.
What's worse, the scurrolous cad's reputation is none-the-worse for it, but the original collector then gets tagged as a bootlegger (and there is a STRONG differentiation in this world, trust me) and potentially loses his network because of said cad's lack of concern for others.
It is this self-serving 'music is for the people' attitude of sharing everything (which, in MY book, is also just another ego-driven attitude: "hey, look at me, I'm SHARING.") that can flush years of hard work down the toilet for some 'moral' crusade against the very individuals who have probably loosened up most of the things you've heard and collected in the first place.
Additionally, if you or anyone else has ever spent so much as a penny toward obtaining any bootleg material -- and, yes, that includes buying blanks -- according to your definition, you are knowingly purchasing stolen/illegal property and are just as guilty of possessing the same 'ailment' as they do, and are also part of the problem.
Let me put it to anyone this way:
Some bloke approaches you at a party after a concert in some large metropolitan city and says he's heard you like Stones stuff and that you've got a good collection. He knows you can appreciate and dig this stuff, so he's going to offer you, in some simple trades, stuff you've never heard before or, hell, didn't even know EXISTED. This bloke came across a carton of discarded master tapes outside of Olympic studios, in the dumpster, and lo and behold it had stacks of Stones master reels that include alternate takes and mixes of YOUR favortie albums. He'll give you Cds of the stuff, and you can check it out and have proof that they are legit before anything goes down. He'll give you two hours of stuff for the first trade and will continue to give you more if you can supply him with any live shows from 1989 and 1994 because he digs that era, or if you can find any Indigo Girls boots, because he really doesn't actively collect anymore and likes to stay away from the internet.
The only catch is, you can't trade or copy the stuff for anyone else, and if he finds that you did, you don't get any more.
What do you do?
And don't even TRY to tell me you'd copy the stuff because you wouldn't.
And, no, the terms of that trade are no as outrageously unlikely as you would think.
MIKEY: I have seen the version. I can see why you would feel that way, but it really was a security measure and, apprently, has proven itself to be of sound reason as the jerk did in fact turn around and distribute the video. It is highly unwatchable -- the Stones' portion at least.
J