PEARL JAM: "OFFICIAL BOOTLEGS SERIES" (2000-PRESENT) IF YOU'RE GONNA DO IT ANYWAY, WE MAY AS WELL MAKE YOU PAY FOR IT In 2000, Pearl Jam had the bright idea that if fans were going to make bootlegs of all their concerts, then the band might as well do half-decent recordings of them themselves, put them out and make some money from it. They try to record every concert and the series now runs into several hundreds. There is clearly a market for them, too - some of the releases have even sold well enough to appear in the US album chart. In fairness to Pearl Jam, they have tried to make the releases affordable as well as good quality, avoiding some of the pitfalls of the illegal bootleg market. Other artists soon cottoned on that this might be a good idea: Tori Amos also has an ongoing series now called 'Legs and Boots'. There are even now companies like Concert Live who specialize in recording concerts and pressing up the results almost as soon as the concert has finished so you can take home a CD as a souvenir.