Cheap re-issues have got all their costs back as said above. Folk music live is cheap compared with other forms of live music in general. Costs of getting to gigs,running the car,advertising, agents etc are the same. CD's have kept many artists working who would otherwise have to give up.Pay twice as much on the door and they could keep going and travelling without them.I've worked audiences as have all my fellow pros who have paid £5 on the door and £10 on a couple of rounds of drinks. Give thanks that self-made cds put control back into the hands of the artists and not the big business record companies, and allow them to make the music you like and travel to you with it, without wondering how the bills will get paid.And don't download their tracks for free and then wonder why they don't come round your way again.You pay for so much you don't want, need or support in this life, like the coming war, with the taxes you can't avoid, but the artists you like you can support and keep going of your own choice. It's up to you.