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The Fanfare bootleg was probably issued around 1999. TDC put a warning on their website at the time :
"Crime Watch Update: It has been brought to our attention that some illegal bootleg CD copies of Fanfare for the Comic Muse have been made available for sale at a few retail outlets in the UK. Please do not buy any copies you find as they are unauthorised and serve only to help line the pockets of illegal profiteers. Thank-you for your support!"

All the bootlegs seem to be similar. Here are the properties of them:

On the back, on the insert and on the CD, a standard typeface was used for the credits and info.
On the CD, the names 'THE DIVINE COMEDY' and 'fanfare for the comic muse' are also printed with a standard typeface.
The greyed out 'THE DIVINE COMEDY' is printed in a typeface that looks likes both the one used on the original and that used on the re-issue, but it is actually none of those. The greyed out 'fanfare for the comic muse' text has a new typeface (look at the r!).
The bar code has the same number than the original but is a bit different than that of the 2nd edition.
'John McCarthy', instead of 'John McCulagh', is credited on both the back of the insert and the back cover.
On the CD the dot between 'Titles' and 'Neil' is lower than on the official releases.
Around the centre of the CD, we can see: A0100247807-0101 24 A2

Fanfare For The Comic Muse – Bootlegs

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