This is all why I put this in the BS section! I wish I hadn't bothered.
Because it was obvious that eventually we would get to a series of posts of which the underlying motive force is something similar to this: "What I do object to is your damned near goddizing of the man." Why on earth should anyone object to what someone else thinks about another person, none of whom have done any harm? Or if you do, why bother pursuing it in an internet forum, when it clearly won't make any difference and even if it did that wouldn't be important? (I believe Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Bill Gates and the ghost of Thomas Aquinas are not gagging desperately to see who gives in first on this massively popular "discussion" on this bleeding-edge of popular opinion during the time of coronavirus, me too, and black lives mattering.)

MacColl is dead, who cares if his shit stank? MacColl is dead and some of the people who really like him - Jim doesn't goddize him or anything like it, being a Catholic I can spot a believer when I see one - some of us who really like his work in theatre and folk song are heading more rapidly than we would like in that direction too, so maybe let us have some fun without trying to kick the shit out of us. MacColl is dead and his family almost certainly make far more from The First Time Ever I saw Your Face than they ever will from people on here sharing a few files. Maybe we should picket second hand record shops and stop them selling scratchy bits of vinyl because the MacColls want to sell copies of them instead? Although I suspect that the estates of the people whose record companies issued the vinyl in the first place might object to Bandcamp, actually. My son-in-law is a lawyer, I will ask him his learned opinion.

As the OP do I have copyright to delete this whole topic? I wish I did. Joe Offer has a lot to answer for. (That's a joke by the way, Joe.)