Trading bootleg tapes or CD-Rs 10 or 15 years ago, OK, you'd be right. That is property paid for, impossible to mass-disseminate, and bartered between two parties privately. This is different. Everything about this is different.This involves property he most likely did not pay for, but that he acquired nonetheless and originally intended to use as bait to get something else.
Correct any of these statements if I'm wrong:
-He has not claimed, or proved if he has claimed, to have paid money for the Hollywood Bowl audio. That means he freely received and as such should freely give.
-He did not post it to share, free of charge, right off the bat. He baited the rest of the forum with it in order to send it to one person and only on the condition that he would receive from that person another rarity.
-He was called out on his tactics by a moderator as well as another longtime poster who has shared several valuable rarities truly selflessly over the years. THEN and ONLY THEN did Viva Taint post the show for everyone.
Am I saying it is not cool to have this? No. But it doesn't absolve him from being what he is, which is underhanded and conniving. And I'm not trying to "ruin this awesome day." I'm merely saying consider the circumstances. At the end of the day this is, at best, a nice quality Morrissey show from a concert era that has already yielded several high quality bootlegs. It is indeed a great addition, but did Viva film it? Did he record it? No, no. No. He got it most likely for free, digitally, and intended not to share it but to use it to get more stuff to hoard. For himself. There is NO indication he meant to share this publicly, or the Kit outtake had he gotten it. If there is, show me.
The way you people are praising him, you'd swear he procured the cure for cancer.
And as for the "grief" I've given him, well...it's TOTALLY irrelevant to this debate, and the mere fact that you'd bring it up at all shows how shaky your ground is where this specific matter and your reasoning therein is concerned. I stand by every ounce of grief I've doled out in his direction. If you cannot argue based solely on the issue at hand, then shut up.
And no, I don't care about his link to this download. You don't believe me? I care.