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Are there any decent underground/bootleg record stores left in your 'hood?
With the advent of online trading and bootleg rings, it seems impossible to find bootlegs at indie record stores anymore.
We've got a few cool shops left in Ottawa, but you're more likely to find "Yanni At The Acropolis" than anything bootleg, especially Hip.
There used to be a great one at the Four Corners in Brampton, (Where I landed my first "Roxy and Elsewhere" disc) but I was sad to find it's now gone too.
Are there any spots left with "import" or "live and unreleased" sections?
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Can't help you out but I first got into bootlegs back around 1987 or 1988 when I bought two Cult bootleg tapes from a head shop in Regina. It's too bad I mistreated my tapes so badly because they were fantastic shows that I'd love to have on CD now.
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macyme Wrote:Quote:The place use to be called New World Record, they had tons of vinyl and all the good boots in the glass case by the register, the guy moved his shop to buffalo some years ago. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://newworldrecord.com/">http://newworldrecord.com/</a><!-- m -->.
Some years ago? They are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year.
Wow, I always thought they started in Buffalo.
Great, great, great store.
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There was this place in Barrie my friends used to go to when they wanted Pearl Jam boots. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called.
Turk's in downtown Kingston has a few bootlegs in its used cd section. Not that any of us would buy such a thing anymore.
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The store you are looking for is called, "Big John's".
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There's a great store here in Cowtown called "Recordland" which has an incredible selection of used CDs and vinyl. They're also the only place in town where you can still find decent bootlegs. Last time I was there they had a pretty good selection of live Hip, including Roxy & Elsewhere, Glastonbury & Elsewhere, Woodstock '99, and a couple others. Most of them were selling for about $20, which isn't bad considering I've seen the same boots for sale at other stores for upwards of $50.
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Music Orbit in Guelph usually has a few.
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Sorry if this is a really obvious question, but why do you care? I mean, why would you want to pay for bootlegs?
For the record, we have Taz here, and half the store is bootlegs and the other half is vinyl, but Taz himself is so notorious an asshole most of my friends refuse to shop there. I spent $30 on my first Hip boot, and it was the UNCORRECTED version of the Bill's Bar show. Asshole.
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There's a small indie business that shows up at my university twice a year to sell used cd's for much higher than they should. They also sell concert videos and such. They had a number of bootlegged VHS tapes of the Hip's New Year's Eve show in 2000 I think it was at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. I didn't buy one though, they were selling them for like $20!!
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we have something similar that stops in town every September around my birthday at the Holiday Inn. part of the price of admission goes to charity, and they sell cheap pizza and pop and they have lots of sweet boots, vids, t shirts memorabilia ect. but it's not as cool as it used to be. when i first started going you could buy the actual boots, but now everyone just sells burnt cd's, but for the same price that they used to sell the original copies. those bastards. oh well, they have dvd's now, and that's cool. i've snagged some sweet smashing pumpkins shit over the years.
