The original tapes, if they still exist, are also aging. If anyone has pristine vinyl copies of these albums (and many people other than Nic are involved), please keep them pristine. Someone somewhere would be able to make good transfers to CD, once permission had been obtained. A deal could be struck with the copyright owners to fairly share the proceeds... I'm in cloud cuckoo land, aren't I?

I suppose there would be many that would not be commercially viable. So they could just be handed back to the artists to do with them what they will...