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Home » bootlegs

Tag: bootlegs

Posted inMusic

How do record stores get such great used vinyl?

by Leor Galil April 16, 2014August 18, 2021

When record stores aren’t buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.

Posted inMusic

Unlicensed to ill

by Leor Galil December 31, 2013August 18, 2021

Bootleg rap and R&B vinyl is thriving, even though most of the music is easy to buy or free to download.

Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Alma Negra’s Erin Page on Neurosis, King Dude, and Thin Lizzy

by Philip Montoro January 11, 2013August 18, 2021

Current obsessions of Alma Negra’s Erin Page and Anatomy of Habit’s Mark Solotroff

Posted inBlogs

The Numero Group Turns the Tables on a Bootlegger

by Miles Raymer March 8, 2010August 19, 2021

The shady origin of the Numero Group’s new “Eccentric Breaks and Beats.”

Posted inBlogs

Show your bones

by Miles Raymer April 15, 2008August 19, 2021

Russian roentgenizdat: LPs cut into discarded X-ray plates

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