And although people will pay more for premium product, they are also on the look out for a bargain. While there might not be the same quantity of vinyl sales in recent years, the market has still supported facsimiles of the official releases. It is said to have sold 120,000 copies before Dark Side. Back in the '70s, bootleg records were usually privately pressed live albums, a prime example being Live, The Best Of Tour '72, which featured Pink Floyd's then work-in-progress The Dark Side Of The Moon, surreptitiously recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, London that year. A cursory scan of albums listed in online music database Discogs (it now contains over 11.6 million releases) will reveal LPs it categorises as 'unofficial'.

710925 CH- Falkoner Teatret 25.09.71 (VOL.When buying LPs, one of the things the vinyl aficionado needs to be wary of is the bootleg version.

7103- C- Live Performances on March 1971.

701222 C- Pink's Psychedelic Lastnight.

'' C- Rockstars in Concert - Pink Floyd.

'' C- Pink Floyd Live (CDDV 2032 DV More Record Production).

'' C- The Other Side of the Moon Vol 1.

'' C- Libest Spacement Monitor (WORK 5525/2 Men At Work).

'' CH- Libest Spacement Monitor (TSP-CD-027 The Swingin' Pig).

700916 C- Atom Heart Mother Goes On The Road.

700628 CH- Reversion Or Revalorization.

'' C- Embryo (WBR CD 900110 Wild Bird Records).

70- C- Archives Live Through the Years 1970-90.

690808 C- The Journey Through The Past.

'' C- Atom Heart Mother (CD/STILL 003).

690512 C- Atom Heart Mother (CD 9013 Alegra).

690509 CH- Beset By Creatures of the Deep.

690321 C- The Conversation Disc Series.

'' C- My Uncle is Sick Because the Highway is Green.

'' C- Z-Point And Beyond - A Collection Of Rare Material.

'' - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (MT5 Musically Tuned).

'' CH- The Embryo (TSP-CD-020 The Swingin' Pig).

6705- Variations On A Theme Of Absence.

'' C- A CD Full of Secrets (BC 024 Baby Capone).

670311 C- A CD Full of Secrets (AYCD69).

'' C- Rhamadam, Syd Barrett And The Dawn Of Pink Floyd.

670120 C- Dark Globe: Syd Barret and the dawn of Pink Floyd.

'' CH- The Sights and Sounds of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd.

670118 C- Antiques - A Rare Collection Of Oddities.

'' C- Total Eclipse - A Retrospective 1967-1993.

'' C- A Sauceful Of Secrets - Mono Edition.

'' - The Piper At the Gates of Dawn ((None)).

'' C- Music For Architectural Students.

67- C- All Movement Is Accomplished (The 60's Rarities).

'' C- Syd Barrett's (Pink Floyd) Last Screams.

66- C- Jewel Box 4 - Rare Live & Unreleased.

65- Anthology I - A Collection Of Rare Tracks: 1965 - 1983.

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