jeepers ... here we go again revisited!
anyway thanks for realizing ABKCO would need to cooperate on releases of an awful lot of the archived stuff. so let's try this question on, just for fun:
do you reckon the vast quantities of Stones music circulating on bootlegs was all stolen from the artists, or that they okayed the leaking of at least some of it?
if the former: what exactly is the deal you want to propose to them?
"now that we've stolen this from you, you should invest time and money into spiffing it up real nice for us, dammit"?
if the latter: maybe "thanks for the music" would sound good.
"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith