quoted 32 lines Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:19:44 -0700
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:19:44 -0700
>To: ambient@hyperreal.com
>From: scooper@best.com (Sean Cooper)
>Subject: bootlegs (was Kraftwerk II)
>Sender: owner-ambient@hyperreal.com
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>>Well, yes, the CDs are bootlegs mastered from vinyl. But why at this point
>>is a vinyl album considered "legit"? The album is out of print; any copy
>>you can find nowadays is on the used market, and neither the band nor the
>>record label will gain any profit from the sale.
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>the argument exists (although it's not one i've personally advanced) that
>bootlegging lps that are out of print, consistent with the keynesian model
>of supply and demand, reduces demand for the album's reissue by making
>extra, so-called illegitimate copies available for sale (e.g. reissue
>_would_--hypothetically anyway--positively impact the economic health of
>both label and musician, to say nothing of the poor consumer who can't find
>that copy of, say, "2350 Broadway"). the counter-argument, of course, also
>exists, especially in the case of marginal musics like ambient, techno, and
>the experimental avant-garde, that probably nary enough demand exists to
>ever force reissue of these albums, so they're pretty much fair game. all
>that in mind, much is obviously left up to the ethical determinations of
>the individual (both bootlegger and potential customer) and should probably
>at least reflect an understanding of the various different ways the
>marketplace is affected.
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>sc
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>p.s. onnow: bootleged cd of pentamerous metamorphosis
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