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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

This is not new: authorities in Vietnam perennially and publicly bust bootleg vendors to show that they are doing something about the country's ubiquitous shadow economies.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

In between the tribute bands and memorabilia vendors, one of the big attractions was screenings of various rare or bootleg film footage, screened in cavernous hotel ballrooms.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2025

His shop sold all kinds of stuff, from hair-care products to body oils to bootleg clothes to African statues.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

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

But they bit on fakes and bootlegs and gave up 98 rushing yards to quarterbacks.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 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

The trousers were checkered, of ash-gray color, and his sapogi had short, unblacked military bootlegs.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

But a growing number of fans say a crackdown on bootlegged merchandise is hampering that spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

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

The song has the scratchy, low quality vibe of a bootlegged demo; and the vocals are sometimes slurred and glitchy - likely to be artefacts of the AI process.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

“We’re in an impossible situation that’s reminiscent of the Prohibition era, where the federal government prohibited alcoholic beverages, bootlegging was rampant, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the District today,” Mendelson said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022

Tribes across Alaska have courts that decide child protection, adoption cases, bootlegging and other cases, but their power over non-members is limited.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

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