the production of small amounts of CDR format Albums might be just the thing to fill the gap

What gap would that be, George?
The one left by the suppression of the Leader/Trailer archive since your mate acquired it?
Small amounts of CD-Rs, yeah, sneaked out by the back door without publicity and no royalties paid to artists.
Just the thing. Yeah.
Nobody's making anything very much, not even the rights owner.
Meanwhile, these artists are getting sick or have already died.