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I was recently looking around Discogs to browse the marketplace for Pink Floyd releases, and funnily enough I saw a crap load of bootleg cassettes of Pulse, almost exclusively sold in Russia at one point during the album's release back in 1995.
These bootlegs would not even try to hide the fact that they were fakes, and it amused me quite a lot, and this happens for almost every well known album that is sold commonly outside of Russia.
For an example, Pulse originally was sold as a two cassette box set, and the cover looked like this:
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However, in Russia, Pulse was sold as two separate cassettes, both billed as Pulse Vol. 1 and Pulse Vol. 2. The covers looked like this:
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As you can visibly tell, there is a MASSIVE difference in terms of design and artwork. Another big change-up is the tracklisting, which usually is the most common sign of bootlegs. The original Pulse tracklist on cassette is as follows:
