Classic Vinyl Bootleg Revisited: ALL THOSE YEARS — unofficial but the first retrospective release of a supectacular 10-LP box collection (Part 2 of 3)

"You certainly love Bruce Springsteen and his music. That's sure because only true lovers can buy a ten record set; this album has been made for guys like you. So we can avoid talking about how great he is, and how good his songs are: we both know. Here we want to introduce to you these records, that, of course, are the results of a deep passion and lengthy work. They contain recordings from twelve years of Springsteen's career, trying to cover every tour he has made."
Quoted from the preface of the booklet included in ALL THOSE YEARS.

As I wrote in the last blog (02/23/2024), my financial status as a university student did not allow me to purchase this magnificent release when I first saw it was out in 1984.  Undoubtedly, a 10-LP bootleg was a surprising and impressive release in its volume alone, and the concept every hard-core collector can share was well-represented by the accompanying 20-page booklet. To be honest, however, I did not become engrossed in this box too much initially because of the extraordinarily high price and because I much preferred live bootlegs of a whole or nearly complete single concert (just like the Official Live Archive series) to those of compilations from various locations. The latter reason also mainly explains why I wouldn't say I liked the official live retrospective box released in 1986 (see 11/21/2019).