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I was never much of a concertgoer. And I never collected bootleg
recordings, not out of any sense of morality, but because I didn't
know people who trafficked in such goods. But I can understand the
appeal of hearing a live event, captured with a minimum of technical
enhancement. Which should be in quotes, since one person's
enhancement is another's unnecessary manipulation that destroys the
integrity of the performance.
I don't remember reading anything about these non-bootleg bootlegs
when they started appearing on the iTMS many months ago. Which is
kind of a surprise, given how much attention is paid to every move
Apple makes. But I think it's a big deal, something you can do when
you stop thinking of online music as a way of delivering CD content
and start treating it as its own form of distribution. With CDs,
there are good reasons not to have a dozen performances of the same
material available. In the online world, why not record and release
every single concert? The additional cost is low, customers can
choose exactly the performances they want, perhaps the ones they
attended, and collectors can go crazy! I mean, who wouldn't
want to hear every note Tori's ever sung? I certainly do. Although
I guess that'll have to wait until the next increase in iPod
capacity.
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