Please note that I am not a dealer. I do not sell or trade pirate copies of official material.

I am simply a collector who is seeking by these web pages to provide an Internet Beatles resource for both casual and serious fans alike, which is the reason for the inclusion of both official releases and promo's aswell as Beatlegs. I have no intention of breaking the law.

Although I am a fan of The Beatles and John Lennon, I am only a fan of their music.

Contrary to the much hyped record industry "party line", it is pirating that costs both the record industry and the artists money, not the bootlegging of otherwise unavailable material by classic never to be seen again artists like The Beatles and John Lennon.

Not only did John Lennon admit in one of his last interviews to collecting bootlegs of both his own and Beatles material, but Yoko has been behind making most of John's unreleased canon available to the black market via the Lost Lennon Tapes radio shows.

Serious fans of The Beatles have all of the official releases, even though we have had to fork out time and time again for the same material, albeit in different packaging. Examples of this are things like the Red and Blue albums, the CD singles and EP's boxed sets and the 30th Anniversary White Album.

If bootlegging of The Beatles were to be totally stamped out it would certainly not mean that either I or other collectors would go out and spend our money on various artists official releases.

I suggest that record industry money that is currently devoted to chasing people like Vigotone and Yellow Dog would be far better spent going after people who pirate official releases or stamping out real crime like drug pushing.