The vinyl reissue wave gets smarter by the day...

It’s a very scary and weird commentary on the state of the music business, that posthumous albums have now become a booming category.

In the tornado of music and gear better known as, let’s say, audiophilisma, there are a lot of guilty pleasures.

OK, this isn't jazz, but it's such a crazy bargain, I couldn't resist shouting it from my rooftop: Decca Sound, The Analogue Years 54 albums (and bits of several more) from the Decca label's heyday of classical recording (the mid-'50s to late-'70s), pressed in a boxed set of 50 CDs, selling for $129.

In case you're too stunned to do the math, that's $2.58 per disc!