All this is way off thread. What we want to here here is not (yet more) dreary folk-righteous pontificating on the morality of bootlegging, but a celebratory list of freely available downloads of long out of print albums whose very existence might be considered legendary. How often do you find a vinyl copy of And Now it is So Early? Or else the Standard Library Music LP featuring some choice Third Ear Band sessions recorded in 1968 under the name of the National Balkan Ensemble? I bought the album from Japan years ago, but have since passed it on to fans of the band who wouldn't otherwise get to hear it. It's now quite freely available (along with other rarities) HERE & elsewhere.

In popular music, bootlegs are very much a part of the cultural reality; cherished unofficial recordings of studio demos, radio sessions, & concert recordings are part and parcel of the experience & celebration of the music. Likewise in Jazz - I'm presently on with the 28-CD box set recorded off the mixing desk during a Sun Ra Xmas & New Year residency 1980 / 81. Such recordings capture the wild diversity that exists contrary to the Official Product - they are field-recorded cultural document, a feral archive of wonders that make life just that little bit more worthwhile somehow. Seems odd, therefore, that this aspect of things is almost entirely absent from Revival Folk Music - one can but ponder!