Some classic live music downloads to remind you all that the interweb's still all about bootlegging - in a good, victimless kind of way of course.

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream release party, Tower records Chicago July 26, 1993. From a time when the Pumpkins were on top of their game and Billy still had hair, it's easy to forget how good they were.

Jane's Addiction, King County Fairgrounds, Washington, August 28, 1991.

From 1983 the Smiths' legendry lost Troy Tate sessions, recorded for their first Rough Trade record and rejected.

A beautiful Cat Power performance from Western Washington University, May 14, 1999. This has everything that makes her great, a real favourite of mine.

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