Maurice Kelly wrote:
Were there a lot of bootlegs of this flying about? I managed to get a copy from Ebay, but I still have a sneaking suspicion that it's a bootleg.
There have been dodgy Guilt bootlegs floating around the net for sure. I've regularly seen a 3 track "Samurai Silver" CD on eBay coming out of Lithuania which looked incredibly dodgy and should be avoided.
I also noticed a US store selling 2xCDRs including above CD with photocopied inserts plus an extra disc with some of the edits. At the Buy It Now price they were selling them for I doubt they were genuine. A genuine CDR acetate of the Guilt Edits would fetch quite a bit on eBay (as one did a couple of weeks ago).
Is your disc a silver pressed CD or a CDR? I got my PRO-CDR-101687 from a fairly reputable store in the US and it has all the hallmarks of being completely genuine although it is very possible some fans have ended up with cheap copies. Like James Blunt's shitty music, bootleggers are everywhere 