No it's not... it is not OK to bootleg records in the first place.
The music is the intellectual property of the writer/producer, they
have the rights to decide what is going to happen with there music,
not someone who has absolutely no involvement in his music whatsoever.
Excuses like 'well he released the record once but i can't find it so
bootlegs are ok' are not valid...ever. All of the artists on Virtual
Sex are still very much alive but guess what... no one asked them and
no-one will pay them sh*t. If you think you want to release a track
from an artist go and ask his permission to do so, if he says no,
respect that choice because it is his music, he made it and it is not
some public property. But guess what bootleggers don't do that
because a) they are way to lazy for this or b) to greedy or probably
a combination of these 2.
Also don't come-up with excuses like well they should have taken care
that there records are still available but apparentlyyou never tried
to run a small independent record label. Most record labels are very
short on cash, and taking a gamble on releasing a record is a big
one, they might loose lots of money if they sell just 200 instead of
500 or whatever you invested. So picture this you are an artist and
you have to choose between releasing some exciting new material or
some classic you made 10 years ago... what would you do?
So now can we quit this discussion on bootlegs and stop making up
excuses to tell that bootlegs are good because they aren't.
Bootlegging it just greedy... if you really want to buy them that is
fine but don't come to me telling me that bootlegging is a good thing.
KJ
On 4-jun-2005, at 13:26, Annie Wiggins wrote:
Hi
This is my first message so go easy on me ;)
I think its ok to bootleg tunes as long as they are sold as
bootlegs are not
made to look like the originals. Supplying to demand is fine -
many people
didn’t get or weren’t around when gems like virtual sex was released.
Therefore giving people the chance to hear / play some of these
tracks is
fine by me - but blatantly ripping off the artwork or label is
wrong. The
'new' pheerce citi 004 which htfr have been selling on their site
is one of
the examples where bootlegging has gone to new extremes - putting out
releases on labels that don’t even exist.
-----Original Message-----
From: z66 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 June 2005 03:05
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: (313) virtual sex lp repressed! ACTUALLY IT'S BEEN
BOOTLEGGED,BURN THE BOOTLEGGERS
different musik, different qualities..
well, at least it makes these producers even with other producers of
today [who might not been around that time]. in any case, i'm still
being amazed, how much of good musik is being released every year..
just
like others, i use labels and names as a reference point, but it
always
leads me to new, unknown names + every year i keep discovering gems
i've
missed
i can well understand hunting classics which are unique for both that
and this time, yet what i'm trying to say is: there's a supply but the
demand seems to be lost in time
///Z
Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: z66 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
..and maybe they want *you* to move forward too:: to catch more new
musik rather than being stick to your defined classics
if thats the case, maybe they should work on making better new music!
tom
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