Which would you rather have: a beautiful re-issue artefact with best possible sound, notes, and maybe some income to the artist of their family, or crap dubs from badly pressed vinyl as a file on your computer or a handwritten CDR?

In an ideal world, of course; but the world is far from ideal, or yet even idyllic, though you'd hardly think so hanging around here. Still, one might at least dream of a deluxe edition of And Now it is So Early, with full restored artwork & complete with extra tracks all lovingly remastered from the original wax-cylinder recordings. Maybe that's what still draws me to Folk - the re-Imagined Village as virtual bucolic utopia, just like those old Shirley Collins album sleeves would have had us believe; and even unto this day might I warm the cockles in the nostalgic glow of the VOTP CD graphics. Anyhoo, whatever misgivings as might exist over your back-catalogue, methinks you might draw some comfort at least from the fact that you never stooped so low as THIS.