[Crusader21stCentury]

Why does he call this an instant "bootleg"? If a band authorizes a recording, it isn't a "bootleg", is it?

It will be a bootleg in about ten minutes. After they sell the first one, someone will be in their van with a laptop turning out copies for $5.00 in the parking lot.

[weegee]

Some of the albums that we know as bootlegs actually were released by the artists themselves. Sometimes there is not enough demand for a recording (it would look like a flop on the charts) or it can be used as a means of circumventing the label you are signed to.

Typically with a bootleg, customers don't know the level of involvement in the production and it is assumed to be "illegal" to market.