West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Hatesrats™ on June 02, 2002, 05:53:30 PM
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A Big Fuck U......to those whom the shoe fit's...
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thank you
( in the name of all the bootlegers in the world )
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Well then fuck you too!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
J/K ;D. nah, for real, that shit is fucked!! Don't rob these artists of their hard work. Yall like them? then go out and buy it!! or they won't come back for another round.
PEACE
-Tha Rev
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I downloaded all... but what I also do is buy all.... the good thing about bootlegging is that some of that shit never appears on final versions of albums... so you get those songs too
oh and bootlegging is selling illegal copies of records... i dont do that, i just burn myself a copy or keep the mp3s on my hardrive, but when the time is right... i buy all the shit that i d/l... i dont d/l what i wont buy
-Big BpG
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oh and bootlegging is selling illegal copies of records... i dont do that, i just burn myself a copy or keep the mp3s on my hardrive
-Big BpG
yeah i feel this
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A Big Fuck U......to those whom the shoe fit's...
Word, fuck bootleger's!...
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I downloaded all... but what I also do is buy all.... the good thing about bootlegging is that some of that shit never appears on final versions of albums... so you get those songs too
oh and bootlegging is selling illegal copies of records... i dont do that, i just burn myself a copy or keep the mp3s on my hardrive, but when the time is right... i buy all the shit that i d/l... i dont d/l what i wont buy
-Big BpG
Word!! BPG put it just right!! Bootleggin is sellin illegal copies of records, I send a fuck you to tha peeps that do that, but when u d/l tha copy and then cop that album when it drops then its straight!!!
I feel you tho, fuck tha bootleggers, fa sho!!
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what about tha people that really cant afford to go out an buy all these albums, like me. I buy as many as i can but theres a lot of albums i want to get but dont have tha money so i have to download it
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what about tha people that really cant afford to go out an buy all these albums, like me. I buy as many as i can but theres a lot of albums i want to get but dont have tha money so i have to download it
that ain't bootleging, that a perso shit, but if u selling it , you are bootleging,
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an
that ain't bootleging, that a perso shit, but if u selling it , you are bootleging,
but if it wasnt for tha bootleggers that shit wouldnt be out there 4 me 2 get. Plus it also gives u an advantage, u can listen 2 tha album b4 it comes out or around tha time it comes out, if it sucks it saves u 15 bucks
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an
but if it wasnt for tha bootleggers that shit wouldnt be out there 4 me 2 get. Plus it also gives u an advantage, u can listen 2 tha album b4 it comes out or around tha time it comes out, if it sucks it saves u 15 bucks
those who give u the chance to take it are called , rippers not bootlegers, and 7 times out of 10 , when u get a good album , months b4 it release date, when the time comes , u ain'T feelin the album no more, but for some it a way to see if the album is good or not, so they can save 15 bucks like u said lol
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an
but if it wasnt for tha bootleggers that shit wouldnt be out there 4 me 2 get. Plus it also gives u an advantage, u can listen 2 tha album b4 it comes out or around tha time it comes out, if it sucks it saves u 15 bucks
why buy something you dont like or dont know much about... when i bought cypress hills stoned raiders... i didn't know shit about the album... so i checked out some reviews... all really good reviews... it was even chosen to be one of the best albums of last year... so i d/l some songs.... loved em... 10 minutes later, i was in my car headed for the record store...
if i thought it was crap... than i wouldn't have bought it...
-Big BpG
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Word. Fuck a bootlegga.. I buy all hot shit. Rare and indy shit too.. If its west.. rare, or indy.. I buy.
Nothing like having the artwork and credits.
Ax
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I never burn shit either...only like rap mix cds for my car...i always buy the real shit from stores..
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I ain't gonna lie.
i bought "Xtreme G 3" 2 weeks ago for the game cube from money i made from Eminems album, J-Lo's album, No Doubt's album and something else i can't remember.
:)
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fuck bootleggers
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I only burn compilations, and yeah, i buy the original albums then burn them for my friends then i can make money out of buying a record, i don't care what u think but at least i make my money back for buying the original in the first place.
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Here's something that I posted up over at the outbound connection yesterday, it's pretty relevant to this topic:
My name is "Stitch" and I'm a bootlegger. If that's what you want to call me. But I don't download albums from the net to sell. I'm not the guy with the table set up on 125th street with the fake full color CD packaging that looks just like the original. I don't have an "in" at the studio who supplies me with a digital perfect copy of the album along with bonus tracks which is duplicated at a full scale production operation.
Nah... it's for my own personal stash. Of course, I share my stash with my crew, and they share it with their peeps and so on and so on. Just call it "crew love."
And me and my crew get everything. Of course, we had Eminem's new joint like 2 months ago. And Jay's joint – my man copped the unmastered version of that one and downloaded it again once Jay tried to flip the script and change tracks on us.
It's not that deep if you know where to go and who to roll with. Yeah, Napster (RIP) was great, Audiogalaxy is all good and Kazaa is nifty to – but these are for the mainstream. It gets more hardcore than this. See, me and my crew, we get a rush from digging real deep and cracking *#@% wide open. Then, we stamp our name on that joint and send it out for the world to experience.
We hear all the talk from the RIAA and Hilary "Ho" Rosen about how bootlegging is bad business. Bootlegging is music industry business – how do you think this stuff is getting out there? It's the thriving, pulsating underbelly of American business – how do you think the Rockefeller's got rich? Dude, don't get it twisted.
These cats just don't understand. We do it for fun. We do it for the challenge. We do it for the people. Call us your "super-millennium consumer advocate." We believe that the consumer shouldn't consume unless he's consumed first and tasted the goods. They offer free samples in K-Mart all the time and nobody complains. We test drive cars before we buy them. We have sex before marriage to make sure the goods are in order. Sampling is the American way.
Hilary and the labels are anti-American. They're fascist. They want to shove this garbage music down our throats and pay radio stations to brainwash us. They want us to spend our hard earned money on a $20 album when we've only heard like 2 hit songs out of the 15 tracks. It's a recession damnit! People are unemployed! And we choose where we're gonna spend our dough.
Trying to "crack down" on bootlegging is like trying to stunt free will. Yeah, they might have killed Napster, and they might be suing Kazaa and Audiogalaxy, but they can't stop the hustle. And we already cracked those bullshit Music disc copyright protection schemes (Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and Key2Audio) by using a basic felt tip marker pen and/or electrical tape to cover up the outer ring of the audio disc.
The fact is that nothing can stop a movement once it's started. They couldn't stop British defectors from founding America, they couldn't stop the Civil Rights Movement and the "Free Music" movement won't be stopped. We forced the industry to push up Jay-Z and Eminem. They're just scrambling to keep up. But they'll never stop this.
The industry needs to stop blaming bootlegging for the decline in sales and focus on creating quality *#@%! If it weren't for bootlegging and the Internet, the music industry would probably be dead right now. Wake up... people aren't buying music because you're putting out garbage! That's as simple as it is.
Power to the people!
("Stitch" is a righteous 23 year old from Nevada who is part of a worldwide bootlegging crew called CMS. He "bootlegs" hundreds of songs on a weekly basis, but admits he bought Eminem this week to get the original album artwork and free DVD.)
(Source: sohh.com)
I wouldn't exactly call this guy a bootlegger, I mean he doesn't seem to sell the material he gets, he shares. If his friends sell the stuff he gives to them on then thats their problem, not his. I do the exact same as him, if I d/l a full album to sample (like I have done with Jay's, Em's, Nas' and so on) i'll still cop it when it drops for the official artwork and/or anything else it comes with IF I really enjoy the album.
Anyway, I thought this was quite an interesting read, and I know alot of people have gotten stuff from CMS here, including me.
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fuck bootleggers
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U know tho, wen an artist is signed to a label n shit, they get next to fuck all for the cd u buy. but if they put their own guys on the streets up and down the country selling burned albums for them, and say charged a fiver a time, then they pay their guy a quid for every copy they sell, thats 4 quid in their back pockets, 4 quid is a lot to get for an artist to get payed each album sold, so what the fuck? they get ppl sellin it b4 it's released commercially, so more ppl buy it coz they can get hold of it earlier....and heres the good bit...the material is copyrited by them...so they don't brake any laws!
think about that....
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fuck bootleggers
Yeah Lets Kill Them All!!! 8)
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why buy something you dont like or dont know much about... when i bought cypress hills stoned raiders... i didn't know shit about the album... so i checked out some reviews... all really good reviews... it was even chosen to be one of the best albums of last year... so i d/l some songs.... loved em... 10 minutes later, i was in my car headed for the record store...
if i thought it was crap... than i wouldn't have bought it...
-Big BpG
Word, that's my mentality too... "Stoned Raiders" was a dope album BTW.
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FUCK THE BOOTLEGER >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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LOL... toby tizzle my nizzle knows what he wizzants!
I'm thankful for Scott leakin all those unreleased Death Row music... I don't care if he sold it or just leaked it... they'll never get released!
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well when restless came out, no one at my school hardly knew who xzibit was at all, i let them listen to it , i let htem hear "X", "dont approach me" and "get your walk on" and next thing you know $8 in my pocket (those were the good ol' days when i cold charge that much cuase no one else burned)
but im saying now when man vs. machine comes out im sure alot of those guys will buy it cause they know who xzibit it and all....
im just selling cds to make a living, like devin im jus tryin to live, knamsayinnnnnnnnnnn