[Julie in the rv mirror]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

thank you, it sounds like a rather complex and long procedure... i assume this is for the rare unreleased type of material?

Can be, but most of that's been around for a long time and is widely available (new stuff doesn't usually make it out anymore), unless you are talking about elite collectors who may indeed have rare stuff that they only trade amongst themselves. The stuff that gets shared most often these days is live recordings, which, as Andy has pointed out, can often be of amazingly good quality.