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Eric Harvey: Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder: The Story of the World's First Album Leak (Pitchfork)
Eric Harvey: Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder: The Story of the World's First Album Leak (Pitchfork)
On one basic level, what happened in 1969 with Wonder—and what happens every day with mp3 leaks—illuminates a very basic economic fact: Official markets will always lead to unsanctioned ones that feed off of the legit products—and often operate much more efficiently. Consumer desire has never automatically limited itself to strictly legal operations, particularly when fans can convince themselves (often rightly) that they’re doing no harm to the artists.
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Eric Harvey: Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder: The Story of the World's First Album Leak (Pitchfork)