I didn't take Nick's post as an invitation to drag open an old argument. I believe he was just relating a common experience - running into some prejudice on the part of an Academe Folkie against an 'amatuer'. I read Stardling's letter and it seemed to me to be very much the same kind of thing as I see here in the States. What was pointless seemed to me to be the letter itself. Why attack a cassette that might have sold a few hundred copies? Silly really.

I'll not comment on it further. Let's let the thread revert to a discussion of Rom music if it can.