Site AdminPosts: 1660Location: Nijmegen, NetherlandsJoined: 5th Dec, 2007
Definitely a bootleg release. The cover is a wrap-around insert with the same image on both sides, looks quite low res. The label is much nicer quality print, it is very close to the original (the original's yellow is a bit brighter). No matrix numbers.
Tracks are copied from an original, so not great quality.
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cm01
Posted: 22nd Feb 2012, 4:54 am
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it's very strange to make a bootleg from these one. isn't it ? It's not a rare record and the cover is not identical as the original. A bowie collector can easly detect the counterfeit. The unique interest would be the vinyl color.
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shooky
Posted: 22nd Feb 2012, 5:10 am
Posts: 2910Location: takasaki, japanJoined: 28th May, 2008
bootleggers know collectors will buy anything they put out. it's the main reason i stopped buying boots. poor sound or manufacturing quality meant barely 1 in 10 was a keeper. there is nothing difficult about producing this EP with accurate artwork and even less to make it sound decent. lazy opportunism, nothing more.
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cm01
Posted: 22nd Feb 2012, 5:44 am
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I think a collector of music ( not collector which collect only one artist ) buy bootlegs only when it's a rare recording: outtakes, live etc... and depending of the sound. In Spain there are a lot of bootlegs , colored vinyls, counterfeits of Artist like Stones, beatles, U2 etc but there are a lot of original records at the same price so i think thsoe records are made for collector or Fans which buy exclusively one Artist.
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tmwstw33
Posted: 4th Apr 2012, 10:36 pm
Posts: 208Joined: 9th Feb, 2009
shooky wrote:
bootleggers know collectors will buy anything they put out.
Yes, but there's so much interesting stuff floating around... say, "C'est la Vie", "Mother", the Elvis covers, and so on.
I think a lot of people would like to have that on a "hard copy" (CD or even vinyl), even if the tracks were MP3-based. I would! That would certainly attract more buyers.
So I wonder why the bootleggers keep copying the old officially released stuff. I have put the "Space Oddity" EP on my eBay watchlist several times, but I could never bring myself down to actually spend the money.
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maarten
Posted: 19th Apr 2012, 5:00 pm
Site AdminPosts: 1660Location: Nijmegen, NetherlandsJoined: 5th Dec, 2007
Note: there are black vinyl copies of this counterfeit as well. Weird, as the original isn't that rare or expensive.
That would certainly attract more buyers.
