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Originally Posted by Steve6
Listen there's a lot of very smart people out there who bring their own little recorder to the shows and then make bootlegs of it. I know it's wrong but people do it. There's loads of bootlegs of Meat's live shows out there already as it is, and for this reason I don't think they'll ever issue CD's from soundboard recordings, and I'm sure if you know the right people and look in the right places you'll get DVD bootlegs of his shows aswell. I have none but I'm 100% sure you'll get them. It's these kind of things the music industry is trying to fight from happening.
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We seem to be straying away from the issue here. We all know there are bootlegs of shows .. they're illegal, they're wrong and I suspect of dubious quality .. I would never touch them.
But this thread isn't about bootlegs, it's about people expressing a view that they'd like to be able to buy legal DVDs or CDs of Meat's shows, and I said that much as I'd love this to be possible, I doubted there would be sufficient market for and margin in producing them to the standard Meat would wish routinely for every tour.
As Pud has pointed out, those which have been produced and released all had a unique selling point which made it feasible to mass produce .. and much as I'd love to be able to buy a DVD or CD of every tour via the fanclub, as I said, the numbers imo wouldn't warrant the production costs .. nothing to do with "competing" against inferior bootlegs, because I'm sure fans would prefer something official and of a good standard were it available; but the economics mitigate against it.
Caryl