Archive.org — The Rolling Stones

Legal and provenance notes

To understand the Stones on archive.org, you have to understand their relationship with theft. In the 1970s, the band despised bootlegs. “Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be” (1969)—the infamous recording of their Oakland show that forced them to release “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!” —was seen as a revenue leak. Today, that same Oakland recording has been downloaded from archive.org over 300,000 times. the rolling stones archive.org