bootleg
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“I love bootleg merch,” she said, adding, “It can be better than the original artist’s design, because fans sometimes know what fans want more than the artist.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
We’ve even bought bootleg merch at Mexican markets and on Temu or AliExpress too,” Roy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Bradley got work dancing at Connie’s Inn, the exclusive Harlem black-and-tan club where the draw for white patrons was bootleg liquor and black entertainers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Even Cook bought bootleg copies of the song, some of which had been taped off his live sets on BBC Radio 1 and pressed to vinyl.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
In my grail diary, I had every single Rush song, album, bootleg, and music video ever made.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Stream much of Season 1 to 5 free on Pluto; bootlegs of individual episodes are easy to find online.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
By 2005, people were eagerly swapping bootlegs, demos and gossip on dedicated message boards.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2022
At the Senior Bowl in February, Strong tried to show teams how much his mobility on bootlegs and in the pocket had progressed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
There’ll be a steady use of play actions and bootlegs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
She prodded at the radio and found a college station, staticky and amateurish, and nodded her head along with the mash-up mixes and concert bootlegs the DJ was spinning.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
One of the world's most bootlegged recordings - Fatboy Slim's Satisfaction Skank - is finally being released, after the Rolling Stones gave belated approval for the song's pivotal sample.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
This is like as close to getting bootlegged as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
I wish I could stop one of them and give them sage advice about the future and bootlegged exams.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
We have made a lot of experimental moves with the way we’ve released records — bootlegging stuff for free.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The Premier League has previously pursued legal action against Saudi links to the bootlegging of its match broadcasts, whose rights are owned by Qatar’s beIN Sports.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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