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Front cover

Back cover with track listing

The Story

This disc was recorded in 1993 on the band's "Music for Lawyers" tour at the San Diego date, during their second lawsuit over the U2 EP, and includes most of the material from that EP. It was recorded with an open microphone toward the back of the audience (one can hear the pool tables in the back of the Belly Up Tavern being used) on DAT and transferred to CD without any mixing, so the sound quality is poor and the volume is relativly low. It includes two discs, and features a play-by-play description of what was happening on stage during different songs, as Negativland is a rather performance-art visual sort of band.

It was released in a mechanically numbered edition of less than ten thousand copies; no unnumbered copies are known to exist. $5 from the sale of each copy was anonymously donated to Negativland's legal defense fund. Despite the poor sound quality, it remains the only recording available from the band's 1993 tour. There is no listed record label, and it bears the catalog number 180G.

My Copy

I bought my copy for $15 from a used CD store in Knoxville in 1995; $15 was their standard price for double CDs. I had not heard of this release until I bought my copy. It is number #0993.

The Value

No copies have changed hands recently on eBay.

References and Links

Discography entry for this disc from Negativland's website.

Review of the recording.

Back up to the Guide to Collectable CDs

Over to Negativland in my CD Collection listing

Over to U2

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Last updated 30 December 2005.