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Via Kottke, we are directed to the Aadam Jacobs’ collection of bootleg concert recordings of over ten-thousand venues now online with the help of archivists at the Internet Archive. Starting taping live-shows in 1984, the massive, high quality bank features early performances by Stereolab, Björk, Sonic Youth, Tracy Chapman, REM and many, many more including forgotten and disbanded collaborations held in bars and nightclubs that are a distant memory. Not considering himself an obsessive nor an archivist, as many call him, Jacobs labels himself a fan and a documentarian, a fixture especially for the Chicago touring scene, eventually invited in by club owners with the express purpose to unofficially record sessions.