Police raid ''hard to find records'' for selling bootlegs.

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Posted by harriz on May-30-2006 15:02:

Police raid ''hard to find records'' for selling bootlegs.

http://www.nuskoolbreaks.co.uk/view...der=asc&start=0

Taken from the breakbeat forums

Posted by Protege on May-30-2006 15:33:

lol
they deserve it from what I hear.

Posted by Greedy on May-30-2006 15:42:

i thought everyone knew better than to order from them?

Posted by Tegu on May-30-2006 16:56:

ABOUT TIME!!!

Posted by Timski on May-30-2006 22:48:

excellent...

Posted by Briden on May-31-2006 00:47:

anyone have a legimate link? i see 30+ pages of people "saying" they got busted.

is this in the news somewhere, an official article, anything besides forum posts?

*edit after reading 30 pages of crap flaming and trolling on that board, i still have no idea if this is true or not*

if it's a troll, it's an EXPERT one. if it's true, HTFR have done some damn good damage control trying to make it LOOK like a troll.

jury is still out for me..

Posted by harriz on May-31-2006 01:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Briden
anyone have a legimate link? i see 30+ pages of people "saying" they got busted.

is this in the news somewhere, an official article, anything besides forum posts?

*edit after reading 30 pages of crap flaming and trolling on that board, i still have no idea if this is true or not*

if it's a troll, it's an EXPERT one. if it's true, HTFR have done some damn good damage control trying to make it LOOK like a troll.

jury is still out for me..

I guess you missed the part where htfr dude tried to defend the shop...

Posted by Briden on May-31-2006 01:35:

no, i read it all. people lie. i have no clue if anyone has actually talked to anyone from teh store or if anyone works at the store. do you? i'd love to see it.

Posted by MR STROKE on May-31-2006 01:37:

why do so many people hate HTFR??

Posted by harriz on May-31-2006 02:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Briden
no, i read it all. people lie. i have no clue if anyone has actually talked to anyone from teh store or if anyone works at the store. do you? i'd love to see it.

I don't know wether it's true or not but when there is smoke there is a fire...

It's all over the net almost as much as John Digweeds face.
People said that the police was loading the whites in the van out on the street in front of everybody.
But maybe it's a rumor.
Maybe it's a lie.
Maybe were never pressing huge out of print tracks on dodgy whites and selling them to bedroom djs for 40$ a piece laughing their way to the bank.
Maybe everybody has been talking shit for the past 10 years or so...

Posted by Briden on May-31-2006 02:04:

quote:
Originally posted by harriz
Maybe were never pressing huge out of print tracks on dodgy whites and selling them to bedroom djs for 40$ a piece laughing their way to the bank.
Maybe everybody has been talking shit for the past 10 years or so...

i know they were doing this. i don't know if it's true they were busted. time will tell. so far... nothing at all i have seen anywhere, besides forum posts.

Posted by mzvirbulis on May-31-2006 04:38:

yay about time!

heard nothing but shit from them, plus its i think they went over the top with what they were doing.

Posted by bamski on May-31-2006 05:14:

quote:
Originally posted by MR STROKE
why do so many people hate HTFR??

Rumor has it that they are hard to find records because they carve the vinyl's themselves, true or not, that's some serious shhh.. Lock em up.

Posted by skot_e on May-31-2006 09:02:

Interesting.

Posted by montana on May-31-2006 10:37:

quote:
Originally posted by MR STROKE
why do so many people hate HTFR??

because they have fucked people over when it comes to promising having various rare records in the past and then suddenly not knowing that they ever had the record in stock. also they have pressed up countless of bootleg vinyls with several rare/wanted tracks and in many cases from mp3's. case in point, the azareal reconstruction of east / west - the love i lost aka what ayumi hamasaki - connected (ferry corsten original mix) was called before altered and slapped on vocals.
also they pressed up azareal's reconstruction of pvd's born slippy remix, and this is just when it comes to trance.

Posted by skot_e on May-31-2006 10:55:

I made some enquiries...

quote:
I'm afraid I have been unable to find out anything about this on the information you have provided. Can I suggest that you forward your enquiry onto the International Federation Phonographic Industry (IFPI) who are based in Regent Street, London or the West Midlands Police, who look after the Birmingham region and hopefully they may be able to assist you.

Best wishes,
Ruth Shulver

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED

Ruth Shulver
Specialist Crime Press Desk
rm 1309 New Scotland Yard
Broadway
London
SW1H 0BG

So I emailed IFPI, but no response as yet...

Posted by Freak on May-31-2006 12:03:

Good
I actually reported them to the BPI and UK trading standards a couple of years ago when i bought what i thought was a rare record- and was some shitty repress with 4 different bootlegs on.
Glad to see they listen.
Burn the ******s at the stake.

Posted by RJT on May-31-2006 17:49:

I too hope this is legit, and can't wait to see confirmation.

HTFR has fucked far too many folks over - And though it's been years since I've ordered from them, the wounds of warped records, shit quality bootlegs, and all around douchebaggery are still fresh.

When I was in London last year I wanted to find their store and burn that ****** to the ground.

Posted by Stu Cox on May-31-2006 22:31:

The funny thing was when another forum all clubbed together and bombarded HTFR with e-mails asking when they were going to be stocking a made-up release... sure enough, a week or so later they listed it as in stock!

Posted by Freak on Jun-01-2006 12:34:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RJT

When I was in London last year I wanted to find their store and burn that ****** to the ground.

no wonder you didnt find it.....its in birmingham- 200 miles north of london

Posted by richg101 on Jun-01-2006 13:06:

htfr are pure shit. i remember ordering from them years ago and they didnt have the releases the y claimd to have.

that is really good they are being done for selling bootlegs. i cant belive they re pressed tracks themselves!