There was a loophole/law change in Australia at the time when stores could import CDs (Albums) manufactured outside of Australia and sell them instore cheaper than the CDs of the same album manufactured in Australia and these CDs came in stores in the truck load. You could buy them in a store called the 'Reject Shop' which is akin to a $2 shop where things are cheap for about $5. The quality was phenomenal on some of them, there was 2 separate CDs that were part 1 and 2 of the 1994 Atlanta concert. Yes, here in Australia in the late 90s there were unofficial bootleg live CDs of Pearl Jam of soundboard quality concerts, there were a few Nirvana ones too and others I can't remember. Some are hard to find today in 2022 so I'm I got them when I did. I started collecting them in the early 2000's, still have them all too. Some even put out box sets like Allie Kat Records Hallucinogenic Recipe. The CD's themselves also had funny names like Pearl Jam Vortical, Pearl Jam The 5 Musketeers, Pearl Jam Versus the World, Pearl Jam Unplugged and Undrugged, Pearl Jam Aussie Dynamo, Pearl Jam Surfers Rule Welcome Home Eddie, and Pearl Jam Whipping the Dog. They were released by record labels nobody had ever heard of such as Kiss The Stone, Alley Kat, Octopus, Korny Fone, and Oxygen records. You got the disc that had artwork, the CD case, track listing, sometimes a fold out paper with the record label advertising there other wares. Something about a loophole in copyright (now fixed) law allowed them. Ungodly expensive at the time ($25-$30 for a single disc, $50-$60 for double disc), you could find them in mom and pop record stores. They came from Australia, Germany, and Italy. Ah the days of the infamous PJ bootleg "import" CD's.
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