How do you feel about Bootlegs?

Richard Dower

Back in the day i was a HUGE Prince fan, i had over 500 factory pressed boots! (gave them all away in recent years to other fans/prnce friends). Nearly every month a new boot would drop with some awesome outtakes or a soundboard or a live concert etc.

The internet has mostly killed the Prince boot scene due to the "free boot generation"....basically cheap bastards who wanted boots for free :mad:
Anywho....leaving aside intellectual property and copyrights i had zero problem with the ethics of it all.

If "theives in the temple" brought fourth the funk Prince wouldn't i was :cool: about it. So you a boot lover?

Winty

Is this a post about footwear?

beerbaron

Are those my feet ?

Havermeyer

Much prefer them to those skinny jeans.

Fecking hipsters.

granturismo

Bootcut dont compliment my legs.

Shane-KornSpace

Let me get this straight...

Its ok for you to buy illegally recorded audio but its not ok for us to get them for free?

Correct me, but whos the one that was feeding the piracy industry by paying for the stuff? You.

summerskin

hipster OP liked bootlegs before anyone else. /thread

Richard Dower

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

Let me get this straight...

Its ok for you to buy illegally recorded audio but its not ok for us to get them for free?

Correct me, but whos the one that was feeding the piracy industry for paying for the stuff? You.

Exactly....you pay them so as they can get more recordings, they pay others for the outtakes etc. and press boots and sell them. Yeah they take heafty profits but you wouldnt hear the funk without the evil bootleggers.

Course this situation has changed in recent years and its the fans themselves putting out new stuff.

Anyone

I remember buying them on tape from guys on O'Connell bridge. And it was always a gamble whether the sound was anyway good. Not Prince though, proper music.

summerskin

Richard Dower wrote: »

Exactly....you pay them so as they can get more recordings, they pay others for the outtakes etc. and press boots and sell them. Yeah they take heafty profits but you wouldnt hear the funk without the evil bootleggers.

Course this situation has changed in recent years and its the fans themselves putting out new stuff.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm out at this point.

Richard Dower

Anyone wrote: »

I remember buying them on tape from guys on O'Connell bridge. And it was always a gamble whether the sound was anyway good. Not Prince though, proper music.

:rolleyes:

Son0vagun

I've a attic full of Zappa bootlegs, some of them go for a tidy price on eBay but I wouldn't part with them.

I got a few bootlegs from
The Pogues and Shane MacGowan the sound was terrible on them!

SEPT 23 1989

I also used to buy them from a bloke standing with his box of tapes on O'Connell bridge:D

Where To

Is this thread about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxD0PqVlt5Q

Or this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAl2-vWIH0

Hande hoche!

Ankle support is important.

Richard Dower

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I also used to buy them from a bloke standing with his box of tapes on O'Connell bridge:D

So did i!....:p i used to travel upto Dublin on the bus every few week, they sold the CD boots in a few record shops in Temple Bar.....i bought the tapes on O'Connel Bridge as well!

Richard Dower

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

September 23rd 1989...tape for Japan, Bliss basic tracks take one.......

Floppybits

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I also used to buy them from a bloke standing with his box of tapes on O'Connell bridge:D

I'd say most folks, who are old enough to remember him, bought their bootlegs from him.

Boombastic

I have a few tapes of songs I taped off the radio..would they be worth much? :pac:

Bipolar Joe

Richard Dower wrote: »

If "theives in the temple" brought fourth the funk Prince wouldn't i was :cool: about it.

What the Hell does this even mean? Those words, they exist definitely, but never in that order.

granturismo

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

What the Hell does this even mean? Those words, they exist definitely, but never in that order.

Lesson in how to increase your post count to 17000 - insert random emoticons, random ramblings for example:

Richard Dower wrote: »

September 23rd 1989...tape for Japan, Bliss basic tracks take one......

Richard Dower

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

What the Hell does this even mean? Those words, they exist definitely, but never in that order.

In an interview Prince called bootleggers "theives in the temple"....he fired engineers and people who leaked stuff out of Paisley Park,

pickarooney

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

What the Hell does this even mean? Those words, they exist definitely, but never in that order.

I understood it after three goes. It actually does make sense.

Richard Dower

granturismo wrote: »

Lesson in how to increase your post count to 17000 - insert random emoticons, random ramblings for example:

Sept. 23 was refrence to an outtake of "Bliss" and the poster who has the same name

granturismo

Richard Dower wrote: »

Sept. 23 was refrence to an outtake of "Bliss" and the poster who has the same name

Maybe this thread should be moved to one of the music forums since your references require a certain knowledge of Prince's work or pirated illegal copies of said work.