Having thoroughly enjoyed a vinyl nostalgia wallow with my copy of the Birmingham Beano fan's Back To The Night - one of three cassettes worn to single molecule thickness during my first year at Sheffield Poly, along with Crime of the Century and Wish You Were Here - I thought I'd splash out on a new-fangled CD of same.

Which is easily achieved. If I'm happy to buy from Canada. And only if I spend one-hundred-and-thirty of your English pounds.

So two questions: does anyone know - apart from the usual 'contractual problems' - exactly why such a major artist's work is so hard to get and so eye-wateringly expensive?

And how much moolah have you unexpectedly had to fork out to replace big, black and round with small and shiny?