Yup is a quandary innit?
I suppose before we had access to websites and recorded music we would still have heard covers?
I am only too pleased when people want to play/sing my stuff and have enjoyed the weirdfeeling I get from hearing them.
Gotta french bloke interested in a couple at the moment and waiting to see how he arranges them.
He is a superb guitar player so looking forward to hearing him perform them one day.
I have had the experience of over hearing people discussing the meaning behind one of mine and I must say I was very impressed at the hidden story I had told each of them.
Both entirely different and both news to me.
Wish I had really got the intelect they credited me with but was just a bunch of words that said what they said.