Soundboard bootlegs sold by Amazon & HMV Japan?
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The Belgium one looks like it's the Manhattan Club (Leuven) gig, 17 Dec 1985. I say that because Analog Loyalist released a high quality FLAC transfer/clean-up of that show around ten years ago on his blog.
Even though he released stuff for free the audio content has popped up time and again on silver CD bootlegs over the years and this looks to be just another in a long line. Horrible artwork.
The Detroit show, no idea. Can't remember if that was another show from the cache he released.
I see why Analog Loyalist's reign of giving away free gigs had to come to an end but in his defence, 10 years ago things were very different and we weren't having lavish box-sets dropped on us rammed with live material ![[;)]](/emoticons/wink.gif){kind=small}
It was just the crappy Collector's Editions back then and that was yer lot.
Total waste of money. Crap artwork, no royalties for the band and stuff that's all over Youtube for free. Next...
Michael Monkhouse wrote: no royalties for the band
Yeah that's definitely why I buy the music of musicians who are considerably richer than me. Gotta make sure the dosh is in their pockets instead of mine!
Yeah, it always makes me laugh when people get up in arms about pop copyright theft. Like Paul McCartney ain't got enough money already. These CDs are still total and utter shit though. And if they're fucking over the band as well as the fans, that makes them even more total and fucking utter shit. There's an important distinction between pirate and bootleg. Some bands actually like bootlegs as long as they're not the same as official releases cos they're not losing money and it generates interest. These CDs remain fucking total and fucking utter fucking shit though.
