{"id":9375,"date":"2008-01-23T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9375"},"modified":"2015-10-23T19:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:13:16","slug":"the-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/23\/the-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It wasn’t shrinkwrapped, but appeared to be new. The cover sported a black-and-white photo of The Beatles dating from 1969. There was no title on the front. On the back, there was an odd cartoon drawing of a guy with headphones, and endless text, most of which seemed to be gibberish or some elaborate inside joke. The title read “Hahst Az Son: Two Weeks in January Nineteen Sixty Nine.” I pulled out the discs (it was a double album) to read the track lists, but found that the sloppily-applied labels were blank. The vinyl itself felt odd; it was unusually thick and stiff, the antithesis of those awful RCA “Dynagroove” records you could virtually see through. I wondered if thick vinyl meant “better.”<\/p>\n

I looked again at the back cover, and started to read the song titles.” No Pakistanis.” “Back to Commonwealth.” “Hi Heeled Sneakers.” I wasn’t much of a Beatles historian at the tender age of fourteen, but I knew enough to realize that what I held in my hands was something about which I had previously only heard whispers. A bootleg…<\/p>\n

So began a lifelong obsession…<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/strong> The above was the introduction to a part of my web site that I maintained meticulously from the mid 1990s until around 2005 or so. While I certainly still listen to<\/em> bootlegs, these days I can’t honestly say that I collect them any more. The list of several thousand titles is thus offline. If you’re really, really, interested, drop me a line (contact info can be found near the bottom of this page’s right-hand sidebar).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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