If you attended the CHIRP Record Fair this past weekend there's a chance you came across some of the recent rap and R&B bootleg records I wrote a B Side cover story about a handful of months ago—these are unofficial versions of free mixtapes and albums that either haven't come out on vinyl or are out of print. I bought my first of these hip-hop bootlegs from local record distributor Groove Distribution at last year's CHIRP Record Fair (a $20 copy of Frank Ocean's breakthrough mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra), so I fully expected to find more of them at Groove's table at this year's fair.…
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