On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, John Shilcock wrote:
right away, of course. That store is pretty good for finding odd Kraftwerk stuff - that's where I got the KW1, KW2, R&F and Tone Float re-releases.
Those "re-releases" are boots too... not official releases, as far as I know.
No, bootlegs are recordings of concerts. None of those are live recordings and there is no crowd noise, so they can't be bootlegs. They might be unauthorized releases. That might explain why they were so expensive too - milk the fans for all they're worth. :)
Years ago I asked why they were stocking bootlegs, the people behind the counter said they weren't bootlegs... "because they were obtained from our normal distributors".
That's my opinion too. I don't see how a bootleg producer could (a) produce a pressed CD and (b) sneak it into the normal distribution chain. That's why I was pretty surprised to find TG97 in stores with no distributor info on it. -- /* Soleil */