Ugo
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Posted: July 02 2012, 18:14 |
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@ equinoxe: not everything that's available for sale on the Net is legal and officially sanctioned by the artist(s). If you look for Eric Clapton's An Acoustic Tale, you will surely find it for sale on the Net, but it's not an official album - it's a bootleg of his MTV Unplugged show, and, by the way, it's much better than the official release. Mike Oldfield's The Essential DVD is for sale, but it's not an official release because it was never officially released on DVD. Regarding Alan Parsons Live, outside of Italy it was officially released by Arcade Records, a small Dutch label. Here in Italy it was supposed to be picked up by Parsons' label at the time, Sony Music, but they never did. So an equally small Italian label, named Offworld (does this remind you of something? ), which is specialized in bootlegs, picked it up from Arcade with no authorization whatsoever from the artist and released it, and of course it sold well enough for a post-2000 Alan Parsons release. So it's on sale on many non-Italian online shops, but you won't find it listed on any Italian shop (such as amazon.it), because here it's considered, by all means, a bootleg. Mike's DVD is the same - it's considered a bootleg everywhere but in France, as its label is French.
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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