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18th Sep 2013, 9:12 AM
	nboldock Lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink. Member since Feb 2012 7198 Points Moderator	Without wishing to play Devil's advocate, I'm not sure I agree with this route. Clearly there are oodles of bootlegs/repros that are impossible to assign to one country or another, particularly recent ones and particularly direct copies of actual releases (i.e. designed to look exactly like the real thing) and in these cases the pirate flag is of course really useful. As we know modern day boots are flogged mostly through the internet so a country of release may not strictly exist anyway, but going back to the 60s-90s this wouldn't be the case. However if we can say for sure that a record is from a certain country (as in the example above), why do we not want to include that information? Sure we can (and would) add it in the Notes but by entering the country as "Bootleg" aren't we doing away with one of the methods a user would use to find the record? And aren't we wilfully leaving out information that we include for every other release (i.e. country of release)? Another example would be this. I recently acquired a Japanese Rolling Stones bootleg (titled Hot Rocks, but not the same as the official release of that name). Now, if a Stones collector were to look for it on here, wouldn't they look under Japan for a release that is definitely Japanese? (Actually they won't find it anyway as I haven't got it anymore, but no doubt it will arrive on here one day). Keeping them "in one place" is a good point and I'd agree it is useful to do so, but the "Bootleg/Repro" format already fulfils that aim. Obviously I will go with what Admin decides (you's da boss) but I just wanted to put over an alternative view for possible discussion. Edited by nboldock on 18th Sep 2013, 9:13 AM