So, copies of Samhain’s Final Descent are fairly plentiful on eBay and Discogs. Most of them seem to be the Plan 9 version, and a lot are either listed as new, or the seller has multiple copies. Being that Discogs lists a Russian bootleg of this release, it seems likely that a lot of these are in fact that bootleg. My question is: does it matter? If you master a CD from a CD, is there any difference between the two? Of course, I’m assuming that the bootleg was mastered from a CD and not shitty MP3s. I’m also assuming (hoping) that it wasn’t actually mastered from the eMagine CD, which is reportedly brickwalled.
Ideas? Suggestions?