Pearl Jam take bootlegs to a new level
June 11th, 2008 by Eric Snider in NewsDon’t know about you, but I’m amped that Pearl Jam’s coming in tomorrow night. This info hit my inbox today about Pearl Jam’s expanded program for concert bootlegs. I was mailed several of the first batch a few years ago, and the quality was terrific. Looks like it’ll be even better now:
Pearl Jam will expand their bootleg program for the upcoming 2008 tour to include three different options for fans seeking to obtain bootleg recordings of the band’s live shows. High-quality digital downloads and burn-to-order CDs of the entire show will be available following each show date exclusively via Pearl Jam’s fan club, Ten Club, at www.pearljam.com. In addition, mobile bootlegs of three live tracks per show will be released following the show on V CAST Music phones and at www.pearljamconcerts.com through Verizon Wireless.
Digital Bootleg Downloads
Digital downloads of full Pearl Jam shows will be available for download two weeks after each concert in mp3 and FLAC (digital audio) formats. The price for the digital bootlegs will be $9.99 (mp3) and $14.99 (FLAC) per show.Powered by Internap (INAP), Pearl Jam’s digital bootlegs are high-resolution digital files released without DRM (Digital Rights Management) so that fans can burn them to disc, transfer to them to MP3 players, or play them from their hard drives.
Full concert digital downloads are available exclusively at www.pearljam.com.Made-to-order Bootleg CDs
In addition to digital bootlegs, Pearl Jam is launching a new physical CD program for this tour. CDs will be manufactured according to customer demand and will ship within three weeks of each show date. CDs will be made-to-order using recycled material. The price for hard copy bootlegs is $16.99/show and will be available exclusively through www.pearljam.com.Mobile Bootlegs
By request from fans who are increasingly accessing their music via their mobile phones, Pearl Jam will debut mobile bootlegs as part of the 2008 US Tour. Each stop of the tour, Pearl Jam will provide three (3) stand-out tracks per concert mixed in real-time and released via Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music service or www.pearljamconcerts.com. Following each show, Verizon Wireless will offer fans one (1) full-length track as a free mobile bootlegs download with two (2) additional tracks available for purchase. All three tracks will also be available for purchase as ringtones and ringback tones.All of Pearl Jam’s bootlegs recordings will be professionally mixed in real-time at each show to create the mobile bootlegs, Pearl Jam’s recording engineer will mix the recordings on the Verizon Mobile Recording Studio Bus.
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