Hiya Wild Creature, you babbling brook.
Well ebay is wonderful, full stop. There is nothing wrong with buying off ebay as a collector. It can get annoying that people will buy stuff just to sell to poor chaps like us. But yes, where else would we get it.
I have made the suggestion of opening a thread warning us geeks when stuff comes online. I saw 8 (yes 8) vinyls of coroners gambit for 19 dollars each on gemm.com and should have bought the lot or at least advetised it in here. I got mine just after having paid 120 dollar for another copy on ebay. I just sold it to another guy from in here for just the 20 dollar (which he has yet to pay me). Now that is sharing among goat'sters.
I treasure my collection very much and enjoy the hunt, but without ebay I don't know how I could have done this as i certainly do not get that much exposure to cool stuff in Denmark.
Does everyone agree that ebay is allright? I know Mr. Darnielle gets the usual cut from the original buy but still, buying is buying.
Alternatively, advertised auctions (i.e. come to teh sunset tree copies) for a good cause, say farm sanctuary.