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Hi all,
Just thought thought I'd put my
penny's-worth in over this bootleg issue. The fact is, I love music, and
most of all, I love Madness. So from being 13 to present day I have
collected pretty much everything they've ever recorded. The only way for
me to go after this, would be to buy a vinyl player, and re-purchase all the
albums etc. to hear what they sound like digitally un-remastered. To be
fair, I know there's a few alternate b-side cuts that never made it on to CD,
and I buy these whenever I can. Despite, as I say, not having a vinyl
player.
So where to go? What to
buy? Then you can buy live bootlegs, and let's face it, these are
never going to be released after Madstock and Universal, so if I see a CD of a
concert in Hamburg from the early 80s, do I buy it? Yes I do!
Do I like it? Yes, I do! Do the band get any money from
it? No they don't! But if they were to ever release any of this
stuff officially I would be the first person in HMV on Monday morning, one hand
on my wallet, the other on my car keys.
As for The Lost, �38 seems a bit
steep, seeing as how the 3CD The Business was only �22. If I wasn't so
horrifically in debt though, I have to say I couldn't stop myself.
What's more, I certainly wouldn't feel guilty about buying rarities my
favourite band in the world, in fact I'd be quite chuffed.
So some little geek gets
money from our guy's hard work. Well, maybe he'll be caught,
castrated, and thrown down a well sometime in the future. In the meantime,
it's the only place I can get these recordings and to be honest, if he's
risking his balls to sell them, well...cheers.
By the way, I probably never would
have paid the hundreds of pounds I have to Madness and their record company, had
it not been for buying a bootleg of Divine Madness in 1993 and
thinking they were great.
Just my opinion, thought I'd drop it
in there, peace and love,
The Hunter.
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