Isaac Hayes and The Platinum Pirates
Roger St. Pierre, Record Collector, January 1972
BOOTLEG RECORDS have become a familiar part of the music scene in the past few years but a far more serious problem for record companies and one which, because of its very nature, the general public knows little about is the straightforward pirating or counterfeiting of records.
Total word count of piece: 1979
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