I go around many record shops and even look through the high-value items. I have yet to see a brand-new bootleg pressing.

In the past, I do remember the store owner had bootlegs under the counter or behind or sometimes buried in the record bins. Bootlegs were always hit and miss and mostly miss, raw soundboard or fan recordings with no balance.

I think it was The Byrds I once had, the source was from their telerecordings. I am not sure if it was done by a TV engineer who either recorded the audio to a tape or if a die-hard fan recorded the Byrds from the TV with a semi-decent tape player and mics. Most of The Beatles' bootleg tapes I think were salvaged from a skip or storage and put out commercially on bootlegs, every record shop stocked them. Everyone I knew owned a dodgy Beatles bootleg.

Even Lennon collected and traded Beatles bootlegs.


www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/j...of-knock-off-records

faroutmagazine.co.uk/controversial-world-of-bootleg-vinyl/