quoted 4 lines if you make a bootleg with back-catalogue and limited edition stuff not>if you make a bootleg with back-catalogue and limited edition stuff not
>in print anymore, the producers of the records will not be hurt in any way
>and in that case I think it is OK, even if the bootleggers profit from it.
>
Gee wiz, if there is this big a demand for old limited Caustic Window et.
al (I certainly want some too), why doesn't some smart businessperson
simply license the tracks from rephlex or whatever, and give them a full
release (a Joyrex compilation-like the Aphex Twin classics or something,
maybe?)... that way, the person who licensed and released the tracks makes
money, rephlex makes money, record stores everywhere make money, and all
the poor idiots who don't happen to live in England and thus can't ever get
their hand on anything "limited" are made happy. Think of it.... everyone
will get to hear all this wonderful music through legal channels, and R.
James or whoever can fill their bank accounts without doing anything.
quoted 6 lines I think limited edition records are a very unfair thing. Most of them are>I think limited edition records are a very unfair thing. Most of them are
>only available in England and large cities and I can see no reason why
>people living there should get them and not everyone else who wants them.
>Once an artist or group has released a record, everyone should have access
>to it. I would gladly break some stupid laws to make this possible.
>INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!
Yes, exactly... but life isn't always fair, and, well, maybe there were
other reasons for releasing limited editions besides pissing off everybody
(like, maybe, lack of resources neccesary to permit a full release).... but
hey, if some external party with capital to invest were to license the
tracks.... again, money and/or info would flow freely... and also poor
fools like me won't have to pay triple market value for a copy of autobulb
or things like that anymore...