With thousands of G.I.'s stationed in southeast Asia from about 1965 to 1974, there was a big market for American rock and roll. Copyright law and enforcement was a little lax in Taiwan. They had no issue of looking the other way when Liming Records decided to just pirate existing titles and sell them on the cheap.
A few of these have made their way back to the US with the servicemen. Here's a sample of one.
It's a copy of the double live Grateful Dead album commonly referred to as Skull and Roses.
This label released a ton of them. There was no attempt to pass it off as something other than a counterfeit - If you pass over the mis spellings and such - although this was common even with big labels translated into Asian language.
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