This is my first post in a while.. I was just going thru my collection again and thinking about 2000 bootlegs.. I have all the official boots from 2000 onwards (and a whole lot of unofficial old school ones from the '90s), but one thing always bothered me with 2000 boots: they're beautiful and the only ones that were really personalized with the setlists printed on the cases, but that being said, is there any way to recognize an US copy from a EU one? That is, apart from the barcode sticker, of course.. I know I bought most of them here in Italy so they must be EU "pressings", few of them are US pressings because they have the US barcode sticker.. about half of them are still sealed, but the ones that are not sealed anymore (and for which I didn't keep the original stickers), is there any way to recognize them? Cases are identical for both "pressings", but I never compared, for the same show, a US disc versus a EU disc to see if there was any difference in matrix numbers etc.. Is the only difference really just the barcode sticker? Plus, I have some sealed ones which have a barcode sticker (presumably EU) applied over what seem to be the US sticker (E2K...)..
And, they were all stamped and pressed in the USA (Carrollton, GA) as per the discs said, so aren't they all USA pressings after all? The ones that were sold in Europe just had a different sticker, so.. Does it really have sense to talk about EU and USA pressings? Please, someone enlight me