I turn up some fun bootlegs from time to time. They're always in the middle of a bunch of thrift store crap: Elton John's mid-80s MCA CDs, Time/Life "as seen on TV" comps, the "Spider-Man 3" soundtrack, a million copies of "Time Out". It's fun when they appear; you know you've done the right amount of digging to find that live recording that never got a proper release. Was it Pearl Jam's live series in 2001, coupled with the rise of the internet, that killed the physical bootleg release? I know I wouldn't pay a premium for a Nirvana live set any more when I could just download it for free from a blog. Still, it was fun while it lasted.
I turned up this copy of PJ Harvey's "Black Monsoon" a few month ago at a Goodwill where I regularly turn up quality. It'd been sitting there for a bit; I'm fairly certain I snagged it at 30% off the $2.99 sticker price, so it'd have had to be on the shelf for at least a month. It's a great slab; 5" and 75 minutes worth of Ms. Polly Jean at her greatest, on tour behind "To Bring You My Love", live in an old Art Deco theatre in Los Angeles late in 1995. "Love" was the last PJ Harvey record I bought new, on sale the week it came out for $14.99 at Camelot on CD. I'm sure it's because I got really into Sleater-Kinney at the same time that I lost track, but it's been nice to rediscover 25 years worth of her records in the interim.
Let the record show that I turned the $2.00 (or so) I spent on this into a $20 sale on Discogs, and subsequent Bandcamp purchase. Money well spent.
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