Aug
31
Pearl Jam goes digital for live bootleg series
Pearl Jam, who has sold more than 3M copies of shows from their bootleg series, launch their own download store tomorrow (at their official website).
Hours after their completion, full concerts from the group’s fall tour will be available for $9.99 as 192K MP3s [...]
For $9.99 users will be able to download a full concert from the group’s fall tour, just hours after its completion. The material will be mixed on the fly by longtime Pearl Jam engineer Brett Eliason. The format will be MP3 (192kbps), free of DRM restrictions.
Releasing older shows under this service is being discussed:
“Down the road, we’re also planning, based on fan feedback, a program that would dip into the vaults and find some of those great shows,” Bierman (manager of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club fan organization) said. “That’s the beauty of having Brett involved. Not only do we have the input from the fans, but we have the input of the guy who has been there the whole time.”
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