Oh, Suibhne, this is a gem! Whatever you're "Astray" from, it's certainly not a sense of humor and history!

"The home produced CD-R Album is as much a Folkloric artifact as a Welsh love-spoon or Corn Dolly; it has both hoary provenance and a ceremonial tradition as well as symbolic significance; it is also essentially feral, and perhaps worthy of study (and celebration) in and of itself, price tags notwithstanding."