Re: Do you believe one is less of a fan if one never enters the world of downloads, bootlegs, demos
Another point related to this:
Can you be more or less of a fan by accepting/rejecting the artist's revisionist offerings? i.e. Remasters with altered track order and omitted songs.
In my case, I accept the remasters and reorder them to the original track listing by removing the added songs and adding homebrew remasters of the omitted ones.
But I haven't spent much time tracking down bootlegs. I usually prefer the studio releases to the live recordings. It is interesting but it doesn't offer the same listening enjoyment for me.
That said, if it is an unreleased studio download, I'm interested, more than a live bootleg. Since I am unaware, is there much unreleased b-sides and such studio works available from the unauthorized channels?