They don't make it too easy do they? My instinct is to assume that they don't want to encourage people to go copying LPs on to CDs, they want us buying them all over again. Of course, more times than not the best records, and the best tapes, never come out as CDs anyway, even if you could afford them.

This whole business of material being recorded in ways that rapidly become inaccessible is quite a big thing, not just affecting our music - see this article in the Guardian recently - Digital dark age looms:

"When monks were compiling William the Conqueror's Domesday Book in 1085, they probably didn't expect it to last 1,000 years. But they would surely have been shocked by the idea that it would be unreadable in 10 to 20 years, or even 50 years. That, sad to say, is the position most of our digital data is in today. When our descendents look back at the dawn of the "information age" in the UK, they may see a black hole...."