is it just me, or does anyone feel guilty about listening to bootlegs or stuff that wasn't supposed to be released.

No, just you.

Guilty?

no

I feel guilty about everything. Not just bootlegs.



No, not really.

I will say I did when I bought my first bootleg.

But, now. No guilt at all. Prince would be one of the richest MFers if he just could/would release the back catalog and have excellent, first quality recordings that we've all been waiting for.

If he did, there would be no, "Bootleg" market.

Same thing with the concert videos/DVDs. He records everything. I'd love to have a DVD of each show I've been too. That would be tremendous. (Expensive, but tremendous)

But, we'll see. They may be some contractual obligations that is preventing him from releasing the music/videos. Because I'd definitely rather have the orginial versions, as opposed to any revamped, remixed crap.

Nope,I don't feel guilty.

give me the electric chair for all my future crimes.

Hell no, I'd rather give my money to a bootleg dealer than the JWs . But then again I stopped byuing bootlegs about a year or 2 ago

nope.

good on you for having a conscience. a rarity, as you may realise from reading the posts in this thread.

sabaisabai said:

I do have a conscious, that's the reason why I think twice before buying any official Prince CD or ticket as I don't want to support a cult like the JWs. BTW, when I read the title to the thread I first thought it was about that subject.....

sabaisabai said:

I kind of feel guilty.... but then at the same time... I am enjoying the music, and isn't that what's intended?

Prince should feel guilty ...cuz NOT releasing this stuff is a crime!

No.

I don't. You have to remember there is a difference between a BOOTLEG and a PIRATE. A PIRATE is an illegal copy of something that *COULD* be purchased legitimately. BOOTLEGS are not available in any other form. Thus as far as I'm concerned there is nothing to feel guilty about. Its about sharing the music. It was meant to be heard.

Personally I paid money for maybe my first two bootlegs at record shows 10 years ago. But since then I have only traded and no money has changed hands. So what's to feel guilty about? I trade materials for what I have and I return the favor when asked. I am a link in the music sharing chain. Everyone benefits (from the music) but no one profits financially.

No blood, no foul, no crime.

Well except for the well documented crime that Prince doesn't get off his arse and release this stuff himself and pass go and collect the $200 mil he could gross in 5 years releasing the stuff he knows we all want!! I do think its interesting however that his control freak side is even stronger than is greed side!!

superspaceboy said:

krebsne said:[quote]
Personally I paid money for maybe my first two bootlegs at record shows 10 years ago. But since then I have only traded and no money has changed hands. So what's to feel guilty about? quote]

its not so much about the money, its about the fact that he didn't intend to release them for whatever reason, and its his music so he should be entitled to keep things back.

i started thinking about this because im an amateur photographer and i went to frame one of my pictures. the framer liked the photo and insisted that i make prints and sell them at her shop; the photo is one of my favourites and quite personal to me so i didn't want to make any prints, even if i could make some cash, so i turned the offer down. but i was just thinking what if she ignored me and went ahead and made prints anyway- i would be pretty mad. so then i thought well, i have some prince bootlegs- aint that the same thing?

All of you should feel guilty.
Know why?



















Because the bootleg boogeyman is coming to get you!!!

no, but like I always say "release them" I will buy it. I bought the official black album and crystal ball.

drwatson said:[quote]

krebsne said:

YOU NOT LISTENING TOO WELL

THAT PIRATE ACT

NOT BOOTYLEG

[This message was edited Tue Jun 22 14:49:10 2004 by POOK]

why feel guilty about something that you cant control? i mean...if youve got the bootleg...
why moan over the fact? its already been recorded..and its landed in your hands however it got there. so why not listen to it? u have no one to blame but your self.
on a side note here...
feeling guilty has NOTHING to do with having a conscious. guilt is something you should only feel for a nano-second when you make an honest mistake.
i could go on....but...my break at work is over now... ill try to come back to this when i get home tonight.

Yeah, I feel guilty. But my curiosity is stronger than my guilt, I guess.

no because if he released them officially i would buy them

The correct question is:
Doesn’t Prince feel quilty that he can’t match with the bootleg releases?

Be honest, which one do you prefer:
Musicology or let’s say … Sabotage’s Purple Rush 5

Purple Rush 5 – The Ultimate Temptation
Sabotage Catalog # 218-221
Track Listing
3 August 1983 First Avenue
Let's Go Crazy, When U Were Mine, A Case Of You, Computer Blue, Delirious, Electric Intercourse, Automatic, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, DMSR
Private Piano Rehearsals 1983
Cold Coffee And Cocaine, Mama
7 June 1984 First Avenue
17 days, Our Destiny, Roadhouse Garden, All Day All Night, Free, Noon Rendezvous, Erotic City, Something In The Water (Dose Not Compute), When Doves Cry, Irresistible Bitch, Possessed
30 March 1985 Syracuse NY
Let's Go Crazy, Delirious, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Take Me With U, Do Me Baby, Irresistible Bitch, Possessed, How Come U Don't Call Me Any More, Let's Pretend We’re Married, International Lover, God, Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, The Beautiful Ones, When Doves Cry, I Would Die For You, Baby I'm A Star, Purple Rain
25 October 1984 First Avenue
Afrika Talks To You, Erotic City, Mutiny, Blues in G (“First Avenue Blues”), Instrumental Jam

I always buy ALL official music released by Prince as soon as it's available (even if I already have a copy on boot/CDR). I've certainly helped line his pockets if you know what I mean! Beacause of this, I don't feel ashamed about it, but I don't like people who only buy boots and then get CDR copies of stuff that is in stores or on NPGMC etc. Support the man, and then if you still need a Prince fix, go and get some boots, BUT remember promise yourself you'll buy the official version if it ever surfaces.

The bootlegs are PURE PRINCE-why feel bad!It is the best way to learn how tours grow from nite 2 nite!I love listening 2 soundchecks it is like (I am a fly on the WALL)!
PRINCE want us 2 feel bad because HE CAN NOT CONTROL the bootlegs!!
I love bootleg it is 90% of what I listen 2 all the time!
I give them out 2 all my friends-Even people that don't LISTEN 2 Prince music love them!!!
NOW GO BUY A BOOTLEG!!

Must be the Catholic upbringing.

I wonder what u guys talk about ???? This seems pretty harsh but WHY would u feel guilty about bootlegs ????? I wanted to get hold of a bootleg and mentioned it on the org and i thought i had comitted the worst sin.....CHILL OUT.....
Long Live the bootlegs.....

I buy everything the man releases officially, so I don't sweat it too much on the bootleg thing. I would never buy a pirate copy of something officially released, only that which isn't commercially released (and its rare I actually pay for these things. Most I get through trades). If Prince releases something that I already have a boot of, then I will purchase it again in its official form.

Prince needs to realise that much of his fan base has been maintained by bootlegs over the years. Many have become fans upon hearing stuff not on his records (I've converted plenty of people with the unreleased "Undertaker" album). More of this classic material needs to be released through the NPGMC.