![]() And because amateur tapers beat the “real” record labels to the live album game, how were fans supposed to tell the difference? Now, leaked material is blatantly obvious current live bootlegs’ jackets don’t have TMOQ’s neat uniformity, and streaming services now (with some error) distinguish official studio albums from crowdfunded leaks. To audiences with little information access, TMOQ’s stamped covers didn’t look especially dubious after all, official releases soon followed the bootleggers’ aesthetic. During vinyl’s peak, labels including the infamous Trademark Of Quality (TMOQ) sold unauthorized live albums and leaks of the era’s rock artists, capitalizing on fans’ hunger for any new material. Yeezus on vinyl?! A promo? For real? Uhhhh, no.Įnter the modern vinyl bootleg market. The jacket shows Virgil Abloh’s iconic album package design, a red-taped CD case, cropped and blown up to a 12” square. ![]() All of the widely distributed Kanye LPs appear, but of his 2013 cinematic masterpiece Yeezus, a “FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY” copy appears. ![]() You enter a record store and alphabetically dig through the rap LPs.
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