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In 2004, before this higher quality DVD was leaked, a commercial bootleg DVD version of the original VHS titled ''Rated "R" - A Retrospective (1989 - 1998)'' was released. It contained all of the contents of ''Closure'', as well as the Woodstock '94 performance.
==Artwork and packaging==
That kind of put a spanner in the works, and we were really short on that footage. It’s not something you can go back and repeat again. So yeah, that did cause a problem. And we didn’t reshoot anything as the tour had finished.</blockquote>
The original 1995 footage finally surfaced on YouTube on April 6, 2022.[https://ninlivewww.comechoingthesound.org/showscommunity/otherthreads/live1995.html2013-What-s-this-concert-footage-(UPDATE-It-s-Further-Down-the-Spiral-and-IT-S-HERE!)?p=557996#post557996] It had been preserved via a personal VHS copy made by someone who worked at the London editing studio where Simon Maxwell assembled his rough cut of the footage, before sending it to Nothing Records for approval (at which point it was scrapped). It was shot in [[1995/02/11_Dallas,_TX|Dallas, TX]] and [[1995/02/13_Omaha,_NE|Omaha, NE]] in February and was the same source footage used for the aforementioned "Hurt", "Eraser", and "Wish" videos.
A live album was also planned as a companion release, but the idea was scrapped.[http://www.permanence.de/millscat/nin/index.html] This most likely would have been the soundboard audio that was assembled for Simon Maxwell to edit against. According to [[Sean Beavan]], that audio was recorded at Dallas, Omaha, and [[1995/02/14 St. Louis, MO|St. Louis]]. [https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.nin/c/q9OZ1fVJQ_0/m/KcFwgcAzO7UJ]