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Originally Posted by goldfish
How about a sweepstake to see who on the board has begged, borrowed or stolen a copy/download.
I've got a fiver on Stimp.
Having had a good look through this thread, I haven't seen many, if any complaining that Underworld are the problem here.
The CDs were released. They're absolutely unattainable except through people profiteering on eBay. There are some people out in the ether who have copies or mp3s of these discs.
Underworld would not, under any circumstances, lose out if these were made available for download; the only people interested in downloading the live sets are exactly the same people who would rush out and buy them were they made available in the shops.
Not that long ago, the community here would have simply made sure that the love was spread. Making sure that stuff like this is readily available instantly devalues the eBay auctions and undermines those who would horde and resell for profit or sell bootlegs. It's a win-win situation for band and fans alike.
I've got the majority of it; PM me if you want it. If nothing else, at least it's better than the river run drivel.
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Nice to see you back Simon
And back to your old self again!
Search the forums - I think you will find it difficult to find ANYONE who has said that people should not obtain this through P2P if that is what they want to do. The original thread concerning this simply argued, and correctly so imo, that if you WERE going to download it, the official Underworld forum and, for that matter, RTSR, were not the place to be trading the thing, as it was an official commercial release by the band and did not fall into the usual RTSR "bootleg" category. In the same way that people ought not to be offering to trade any other limited edition commercial materials they have obtained ON HERE. What they do outside of the forum is entirely their concern and no-one elses.
What these threads have mostly been about is people whining because they couldn't get the actual CD's because they have only been made available to the people who attended Electroglide*. Albeit that there are several thousand of those floating about Japan as we speak, they are as rare as rocking-horse shit for the time being.
The gig itself was streamed (as I discovered only this morning) so there are likely to a gzillion copies available in the ether. So what.
It is very nice of you to offer to share it. But once again you seem to have missed the whole point, dear.
ps. Shame you didn't put your fiver on me.
* edit: and the occasional complete stranger
demanding that anyone who has it should share it with them because it is their divine birthright or something.