Live Bootlegs on Tape
Before live recordings were easy to find online, cassette tapes powered a major underground culture of bootlegs, tapers, fan trading, and flea-market music economies. From Grateful Dead taper sections and Deadhead tape archives to 1990s California bootleg raids, this post explores how cassettes became contraband, collector objects, live-show documents, and a handmade alternative to official music distribution.
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