Word: bootlegging
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...album prices to get their hands on one or two good songs. It also unlocks--and makes available for download--the greatest music library in the history of the world, much of it all but forgotten by the major labels. A few clicks of that mouse, and in streams bootleg Led Zeppelin or Ani DiFranco's instrumental version of the old communist anthem Internationale or--Joe Lieberman, take note--Hebrew prayer chants from the world's leading cantors...
...sound a little too pop culture to be all that serious. How many music CDs are students buying these days in a record store outside the Syracuse University campus? How do Chuck D and Courtney Love want to see their music distributed? What does Metallica think about fans' making bootleg recordings of its concerts...
...similar matches are staged weekly in hundreds of backyards across the country. In South Euclid, Ohio, you can watch a show mounted by the teenage Alliance of Violence. In Poinciana, Fla., the federation calls itself Insane Violent Hardcore Extreme Wrestling. More than 400 leagues have websites. And kids trade bootleg videotapes of their antics...
...begun to stuff the digital genie back into its shrink-wrap. Despite the initial hype about MP3s, the format turned out to be downloadable music for geeks only. The rest of us couldn't be bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist and up will pop 2,745 Phish songs sorted by the host computer's type of modem connection and ping rate...
...Other goods available for your shopping pleasure: bikes, cameras and radios. Unfortunately, hardcore search and seizure bootie "never makes it up onto the auction block," according to Director of General Supply Jim Sullivan. Sorry, cell phones, bootleg watches, firearms and other weapons end up either "destroyed" or sent to the proper legal departments. For Miami Vice gear at rock bottom prices, bargain hunters should consider bidding outside the Commonwealth...