YouTube can be great for finding any old music video you can think of, but does anyone really enjoy watching pixelated videos on a small computer screen? Watching high-quality DVDs on the big screen provides a much more entertaining and enlightening experience, and thanks to numerous torrent sites you can choose from hundreds of old concerts to download.

We’re always here to help differentiate the gems from the garbage. Once again it’s time for another DVD edition of Grousing The Aisles featuring quality videos from the Talking Heads, Radiohead, the Jerry Garcia Band and plenty of others.

Talking Heads 12/??/1975:

Did you know pro-shot video of the Talking Heads opening for Television at CBGB in 1975 existed? I sure as hell didn’t until stumbling upon this amazing DVD torrent over at thetradersden. Check out this video for a rare look at the early trio lineup of the band that featured just Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and David Byrne. The Heads deliver a 33-minute set that gives us a peak into the revolutionary force they would soon become.

While the quality on this black-and-white video isn’t the best in the world, this DVD still fits into the Must Download Immediately category. We particularly love the rough version of Psycho Killer that can also be seen here on YouTube. You can sense the tension between the band even at this early stage. Now if only the director didn’t cut between shots every 10 seconds we’d really be in business.

Read on to download a high-quality version of Radiohead’s Scotch Mist and six other DVDs you just gotta have…

Radiohead’s Scotch Mist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZT_nrrpe8c

I couldn’t possibly sum up Radiohead’s NYE webcast any better than Ace did last week, so let’s review what he had to say about Scotch Mist:

Clay Aiken-Yorke and the rest of the Radiohead fellers put in a solid 52 minutes of work on New Year’s Eve, webcasting a dynamic (mostly) studio performance that showed off how the material off In Rainbows may sound live. And after one listen, I’m ready to throw down the poundage to see them wherever they play in these United States. Give it a whirl yourself on the big screen, thanks to a DVD formatted copy of the webcast being torrented at Dime A Dozen.

Man, that’s just mesmerizing stuff, and I’ve never even been a huge Radiohead fan. Faust Arp in a field? Thom Yorke’s 15 Steps gyrations? Awesome shit. At this point, I believe anyone who didn’t think In Rainbows was the album of the year is either deaf or lying, or a lying deaf person, like that time Marlee Matlin said she’d “definitely call me” when leaving my apartment that one marvelous night.

Jerry Garcia Band 11/09/1991:

Garcia fans got a special treat when Bruce Hornsby sat in with the Jerry Garcia Band at Hampton in 1991. Hornsby’s ragtime sass mixed in well with the band, which makes me wonder why he didn’t play with the JGB more often. Jerry and Bruce tore through a slew of classics including The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, How Sweet It Is and I Second That Emotion.

Grainy video of this unique gig circulated over the past few years, but just recently a crispy, must-download copy surfaced. If Jerry’s voice and playing on Shining Star doesn’t bring you to your knees, you just might have no soul. Other highlights include a raucous He Ain’t Give You None and a passionate My Sisters and Brothers. Not only is the video on this new edition incredible, the audio source sound terrific as well. Hopefully this is just the beginning of more JGB footage leaking from the private collections of the numerous GD videotapers from the early ’90s.

Here are five other DVDs worth downloading and burning:

Have you downloaded any good DVD bootlegs lately? Let us know, and be sure to ask away in the comments if you have any questions about how to burn these files onto a blank DVD. We’re happy to help.