I've been a real fan of digitized music for quite a while.
Back in the early to mid 1990's I had a couple of 100-disc CD changers. In principal, these were wonderful. In practice these weren't so practical because I never could remember which was disc 68 in changer #2. And I could never find the cheat sheet when I needed it. The changers allegedly could be controlled by a serial interface and, several times, I nearly plunked down about $250 (or was it $450) for a box that could connect my PC to the changers and use software to determine what I would hear.
The first time I heard that you could copy the contents of CDs to hard disk a light went on! I very quickly joined the digitized music / MP3 / etc. world. Hard drives were expensive back then, but not as expensive as 100-disc CD changers.
Last week I extended this to stacks of old LPs ... most of these LPs I'd never purchase as CDs and may can't be purchased as CDs.
I bought a turntable, connected it (via a preamp) to the stereo inputs of my computer. I use a free program (Audacity) to do the work. Right now, I'm just digitizing the LPs. Eventually I may get around cutting the files into separate tracks, naming them, tagging them, etc. For now, I feel good knowing that the old LPs may be heard again.
Speaking of old LPs ... I turns out that we have a FOUR DISC set called "The Greatest Hits of Frankie Valli and the Fabulous Four Seasons." Believe me, as much as I love Frankie Valli and the Fabulous Four Seasons, when we bought this thing probably in the mid 1970s, Frankie Valli and the Fabulous Four Seasons didn't have four discs worthy of greatest hits status.
But Iron Butterfly stands the test of time ... and one-hit wonderdom!