This has an analog (so to speak) in the live music bootlegging subculture. If you can convince the roadie running the mixer or the sound board to plug in your shady recording device, then you can cut a bootleg record or tape which advertises that as a selling point.

Live audio bootlegs of concerts are typically plagued with the same sort of interference, such as crowd noise, shaky everything, cheap microphone designed for voices only, overwhelming decibel levels, etc. A "clean soundboard" recording can bypass all that and sound comparatively good, especially if the band is good at playing live.