Peter Laban:

FWIW, I noticed that during July there was a whole load of new-old (vinyl lp) stock from Celtic Music being sold off on Ebay by a seller in Harrogate.

When I saw what appeared to be Celtic Music selling copies of Ray Fisher's Bonnie Birdie LP (among others) on eBay, I asked the seller if they had the rights to the albums - and if so, why they didn't bring them out on CD instead of selling single copies of the vinyl. I got this reply:

im sorry to be blunt, but you are clearly showing your ignorance in these matters you really should not believe every thing you read on the internet. Two of the 4 albums you have messaged about are available on cd and have been for years! in fact bright phoebus had a radio 4 program all about how it was "lost" and is was proved on air that it was not. you might not be able to get them down at hmv but that's not our fault, try and get obscure jazz in hmv, you cant find it! some of these albums are not on cd, why is this? because they never sold enough, pouring money into a record that didn't sell is a bit stupid no? finally why are we selling the vinyl on ebay, because there are a few people out there who actually want these records, quite often overseas in country's like japan. in stead of trying to vilify us please do a bit of research and a bit of critical thinking... perhaps if people had actually bought the albums when they were released the situation would not be so.