Bob Dylan’s deluxe ‘bootlegs’? They’re just corporate spin | Kenan Malik

Unofficial recordings have lost any mystique. Just look at the multi-CD take on Blood on the TracksThere was a time when I was excited about bootleg albums. They were forbidden gems, something you heard whispers about at parties and sourced on some stall in Camden Market or that hard to find record shop in Palmer’s Green.Yes, bootlegging was theft and artists lost out on royalties. The sound quality was often awful. But they were also slabs of vinyl that somehow linked you to the band, and