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Originally Posted by ThePits
Alex's Trip, selling bootlegged live recordings is still a big market and yes people make a living out of it
The live bootlegs usually go for for about half the price of a legit album to some of the more desirable live gigs with special guests going for up to 5 times the price
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Originally Posted by ThePits
The question is then who are all the people the BPI and Trading Standards bust every year for bootlegging, not the regular form of piracy, and who are making money from it?
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But none of that explains how it is going to decrease album sales. Just because a live bootleg is cheaper doesn't mean that fans aren't going to buy the studio albums. There may or may not be a lot of bootleggers still out there but that doesn't prove anything.
The people who give a shit about any particular band are probably going to
buy an album before going to see them live. Then they are probably going to
pay for a ticket to see them live. At which point, if they so choose to have a less than studio quality recording of the show they just paid to see, they can choose to purchase/trade/obtain a live bootleg. I don't see how it is going to decrease album sales.