Re: (TV) Beware of Sales Pitches

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

X, you are right. Bootlegging is bad. But it's got some grey areas, after all -
haven't you said you own some TV bootlegs yourself?

One argument is that bootleggers are essentially invading the privacy of the
artist. It would be like, oh, I don't know, publicly posting intimate details
about the artist's love life from behind a barrier of anonymity for almost four
years running now?

:^)

Besides, how's this for ironic: Television released a live album this year,
entitled LIVE AT THE ACADEMY NYC (taken from a 1992 show). You could buy this
CD at their 2003 gigs. Since then, you can't buy it anywhere - even if you try
to contact the email address listed on the CD - *except* from the one store in
NYC that is also the single biggest source of 'commercial' Television bootlegs.


Distributing these new CDs can't be *that* hard, can it? Richard Hell, Phil
Manzanera, and Pere Ubu all run little online operations to sell their CDs
(some of which are similar 'official' beat-the-bootlegger operations), to name
just a few.

--Philip

--- secretX@webtv.net wrote:
> Tom doesn't like bootleggers, especially when they boldly and falsely
> claim, among other things, that Tom approves of the bootleg!! For
> example, why would Tom approve of a bootlegger releasing a recording of
> tthe 1992 Academy show when he had plans all along to release it
> himself? (It just took him awhile.) Why would he approve of a bootlegger
> releasing a shoddy scratchy alternate version of his first solo album
> when he was working on having the legitimate version re-released by a
> large distributor, as it was last year by Collector's Choice? When
> someone who's selling something dispenses so much cruel misinformation
> (misinformation: that the polite and humble drummer Tom Thompson is a
> fictitious character!!) it should be a clue that the seller is not as
> close to Tom as he claims to be. In fact a few years ago when this
> particular seller started making false statements, Tom immediately tried
> to make his position clear in interviews. One that comes to mind was a
> Cleveland online interview in which he called the bootlegger "a clown".


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