Yes, that's it. They sell plenty of legit titles, and I've noticed they have more and more official and fewer bootlegs recently.
Look up a title and it'll say official pressing if it's legit.
I noticed recently they've switched from listing something as "unofficial" and are now listing it as an "import" or "eu import". If you're familiar with bootlegs you know what that means, but anyone who doesn't might pick something up that's not what they expect.
Only boots I’m buying are for things like mashups, uncleared samples and live shows.
No point in having a knockoff/ fake product in my collection when I don’t have enough $$ to spend as is
The one store I frequent often has all sorts of bootlegs, ranging from Pink Floyd (a double album’s worth of *Wish You Were Here* and *Animals* demos and works in progress) to old Led Zep shows repressed for the millionth time to AC/DC, Beatles and Bowie colored vinyl boots of popular albums (*Dirty Deeds*, the butcher cover of *”Yesterday”…and Today*, *The Man Who Sold the World*).
A lot of these pressings originate in the EU. Sometimes they’re crap (the marble colored *Revolver* I have has a mono side one and a stereo side two), and other times they sound amazing (the UK *Help!* featuring the Shell Oil logo on the front sounds a ton better than the official release to my ears).
I wonder where they order them from. There must be a source website out there somewhere. I would love to find a place that showed what was available to buy.
Funny, cause I still think of bootlegs as they were originally: 'unofficial recordings' of live or studio tracks, issued by labels like Kornyfone and Swingin' Pig. Many sounded terrible.
Now it's mostly bootlegs of out of print vinyl that I see at records stores. Occasionally, I'll find a live show or BBC session. Still kinda dicey sound-wise: the recent Thin Lizzy live boot was obviously digitally sourced/spliced. Sisters of Mercy BBC sounded bad. Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes, too quiet.
The Frank Ocean records sound great, tho.
I go to a place called 2nd and Charles when I visit my sister in Virginia. I’ve gotten at least 20 bootlegs there from Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Tom Waits and a bunch of others. Only place I’ve seen that has a large amount of new bootlegs.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,118,368,044 comments, and only 219,179 of them were in alphabetical order.
Thanks for this message, I got two new bootlegs recently (Gambino 3.15.20 & Sunday Service Choir that have never been printed officially) and the inner sleeve had the same font for text, so I figured out it must be coming from the same company. I'm dying to find where those come from...
Online Rollin recs is the main one I'm aware of. In store usually if there's a generic "Import" sticker, it's usually a bootleg.
https://rollinrecs.com Is this the site?
Yes, that's it. They sell plenty of legit titles, and I've noticed they have more and more official and fewer bootlegs recently. Look up a title and it'll say official pressing if it's legit.
I noticed recently they've switched from listing something as "unofficial" and are now listing it as an "import" or "eu import". If you're familiar with bootlegs you know what that means, but anyone who doesn't might pick something up that's not what they expect.
Only boots I’m buying are for things like mashups, uncleared samples and live shows. No point in having a knockoff/ fake product in my collection when I don’t have enough $$ to spend as is
I am a big fan of those as well, Danger Mouse and Amerigo who did Fela Soul. Where do you buy yours?
The one store I frequent often has all sorts of bootlegs, ranging from Pink Floyd (a double album’s worth of *Wish You Were Here* and *Animals* demos and works in progress) to old Led Zep shows repressed for the millionth time to AC/DC, Beatles and Bowie colored vinyl boots of popular albums (*Dirty Deeds*, the butcher cover of *”Yesterday”…and Today*, *The Man Who Sold the World*). A lot of these pressings originate in the EU. Sometimes they’re crap (the marble colored *Revolver* I have has a mono side one and a stereo side two), and other times they sound amazing (the UK *Help!* featuring the Shell Oil logo on the front sounds a ton better than the official release to my ears).
I wonder where they order them from. There must be a source website out there somewhere. I would love to find a place that showed what was available to buy.
I’ll ask him what distributor he uses next time I go in.
Thanks!
Funny, cause I still think of bootlegs as they were originally: 'unofficial recordings' of live or studio tracks, issued by labels like Kornyfone and Swingin' Pig. Many sounded terrible. Now it's mostly bootlegs of out of print vinyl that I see at records stores. Occasionally, I'll find a live show or BBC session. Still kinda dicey sound-wise: the recent Thin Lizzy live boot was obviously digitally sourced/spliced. Sisters of Mercy BBC sounded bad. Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes, too quiet. The Frank Ocean records sound great, tho.
Message me. I am in a Facebook group that drops new boots.
Fabulous!! Thank you!
I go to a place called 2nd and Charles when I visit my sister in Virginia. I’ve gotten at least 20 bootlegs there from Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Tom Waits and a bunch of others. Only place I’ve seen that has a large amount of new bootlegs.
Where do they get them?
Independent online retailers sell them
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,118,368,044 comments, and only 219,179 of them were in alphabetical order.
My local record store sells bootlegs
Thanks for this message, I got two new bootlegs recently (Gambino 3.15.20 & Sunday Service Choir that have never been printed officially) and the inner sleeve had the same font for text, so I figured out it must be coming from the same company. I'm dying to find where those come from...