Hi GeorgeH,
Just a couple of add-ons on reading this, and Ralphie's thread

Bulmer had a shop selling CDs in Glasgow until six months ago, it closed over the space of a weekend when he drove up to Glasgow and removed all the stock.
He had received formal notice,on the Friday, that Glasgow City Council was about to take action against the shop, to recover a four figure unpayed rates bill.

Another body of recorded material that has vanished into the black hole are the North East based labels Rubber & Black Crow.
Those albums that he has allowed to escape, are easily recognised as the labels are shoddly copied from the origional albums on to poor quality paper, no notes are provided, and he burns the CD off himself. Not even up to the standard of a good bootleg.
All the best to Nic and Ralphie
love, john.