as you say there is more than money at stake,there is the right to have ones artistic creative work,available to the public, so that the work can be appeciated,it is all very well to talk about re recording[but why should we have to],also it will never be possible to recreate how we were then.[the musical empathy that was created at that point in time],voices change etc, can never be reproduced.
I see someone is trying to sell[Vinyl] Cheating The Tide, on ebay for 51 euros,what a funny old world .Dick Miles