OFF: A Question on Bootlegs vs trading - the bottom line

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In a message dated 2/10/01 11:13:51 AM, novadrive at HOME.COM writes:

<< Yes and no.  According to "Bootleg: The Secret History Of The Other
Recording Industry" by Clinton Heylin, what you described is a counterfeit
(think millions of fakes of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" made in China), and
a pirate is unauthorized release of official material, but not in its
original form (those same Chinese taking a dozen tracks form albums across
The Gloved Perv's whole career and throwing them together, along with a
fuzzy press photo as a cover, in a CD called "The All Good Songs from
Michael Jackson").
No, I've never seen a Hawkwind counterfeit, but maybe some of the zany
completeists out there have stumbled across one?
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well.
the 'fakes' i recall were cassettes of major-label releases, with a 2-color
sleeve, not even trying to look like the original. cheaper price, too. i
recall seeing 'em in a couple headshops, one of which was also my source for
'real' lp bootlegs.
i bought a fake of...[wait for it]...the 1st America lp as such a tape;
might've been my 15th birthday [ducks]

ditto went for 'fake' country/western cassettes, at truck stops, etc.

i believe  the fake cassette stuff of that sort was cleared out by the end of
the '70s[?]
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yeah, this one can easily imagine those chinese michael jackson
counterfeits...and wonder if 60s kids in  european communist countries were
whipping up some records, too.

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