Interesting question. If you are recording anything From: The Evening on the Erie, {Finally, Once Again, or Almost Live... by The Flyin' Column (from Syracuse, NY)}, or Songs from The Middle Aged. You are welcome and I hope you like them.

Here is another twist for you.

You have a large record collection of folk music on vinyl. You, like millions of others can no longer play you records because you no longer have a turntable that works or a source to by a stylus. Are you ethically obligated to buy the music again you already own as CD's or as MP3 downloads?

( You can certainly buy a new turntable and soft ware to play your vinyl and record it as an MP3 but that isn't the question.)

Something to consider: When you bought that 33 1/3 LP did you buy it for every song on the disc or did you buy it because you wanted to learn two songs and the rest were just awful anyway? Would you replace the whole albumn and if not how do you determine the value of the two songs you wanted?

I don't know the complete answer to this complicated question.

Don