I saw a reference to bootleg records and wondered, for the hundredth time, why they were called that. Obviously it had to do with bootleg booze, but why was that called “bootleg”? 1921 War against ‘bootleg’ milk, in an attempt to make all milk sold in the city properly inspected. A piece of music created by merging two or more existing pieces of popular music, esp. Thomas Bangalter..put out this amazing song called Music Sounds Better With You… There is a bootleg mix that has the vocal from [sc.