JUSTIN'S U2 CDR TRADING PAGE

March 6, 2008

ADDED 13 NEW BOOTLEGS: Today I added 13 new bootlegs to my site, including 11 audio recordings and 2 DVDs.

February 5, 2008

ADDED 15 NEW BOOTLEGS: Today I added 10 new bootlegs to my site, including 12 audio recordings and 3 DVDs.

"NEW ADDITIONS" PAGE ADDED: At the request of several visitors, I added a "New Additions" page to my website to allow folks to easily track what's been added to my site since their last visit.  There's a link to the "New Additions" page in the frame at the bottom of my site.

November 23, 2007

A NEW UPDATE, A NEW EMPHASIS ON LINEAGE, AND A NEW DESIGN: Finally, I have posted the first update to my site in over 18 months.  A number of factors have contributed to the delay.  First, I just don't have anywhere near as much time to put into this hobby as I used to.  Real life responsibilities demand most of my time these days, and I anticipate that this will continue to be the case.  In addition, the various torrent websites have introduced more new bootlegs to the collecting world than I can possibly keep up with.  Trust me, this is a good thing.....a very good thing.  But it is simply impossible to download all of the material distributed on U2 Torrents, Dime A Dozen, etc., burn it to CD/DVD, listen to/watch even a bit of it, and then compose reviews.

As a result, many of the new reviews on my site rely heavily - often exclusively - on comments provided by the uploaders on the torrent site from which I obtained them.  I have also included comments posted on the threads for the various torrents that I feel do a good job of describing the quality of the recordings. 

The torrent sites have also succeeded in creating a mindset among collectors that places added value on recordings with a known lineage.  This has resulted in an emphasis on taper/transfer/equipment information that has manifested itself in a strong preference to describe recordings with lineage info as opposed to giving them titles.  Old school collectors have long lamented the use of stupid monikers (e.g. "Bono Breaks Wind Over Boston") created by bootleg labels and have now more or less succeeded in getting the rest of the collecting world to do away with them.  In general, I think this is a positive development.  Save for commercial bootlegs that have been "liberated", most recordings distributed on the torrent sites are not given a title by the uploader.  The "titles" that I have given to most of most of the new recordings added to my site tend to be limited to city, taper, and generation info.

In order to convey as much information about the lineage of my recordings, I decided to create new pages for each leg of each tour that contain information about the taper equipment, and history (transfer).  Obviously, because this information was not routinely provided for bootlegs until fairly recently, I do not know this information for most of the recordings that I have owned for more than a couple of years.  However, I know at least the transfer information - if not the equipment and taper - for the vast majority of recordings that I have obtained within the past two years.

MANY MORE RECORDINGS TO BE ADDED...EVENTUALLY: In order to get an update posted, I had to stop creating reviews for recordings that I have obtained over the past year or so.  As mentioned above, it is difficult to keep up with all of the new material.  Take a look at the various torrent sites and look at how many U2 recordings have been uploaded since April 2006.  While I have been downloading material for the past 18 months, I only started creating reviews for them within the past six months or so.  If I had waited until my reviews had caught up with the new material, I would have never posted an update.  So I decided to focus primarily on the better recordings to have surfaced, with a heavy emphasis on audio bootlegs.  As a result, a conservative estimate of the number of recordings that I have downloaded but yet to complete a review for would be 50 - 100.  Many of them are DVD, although there are plenty of audio bootlegs in that group as well.  So if you wish to set up a trade, please don't be offended if I tell you that I already have what you're offering despite the fact that it's not listed on my site.

IF YOU FIND BROKEN LINKS, MISDIRECTED LINK, OR INCORRECT INFORMATION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME.  Just drop me an email at justin@justinscdrtrading.com