In some cases, copyright was never renewed and the works are now in the public domain.
Also, there exists a sizeable industry of grey market repressings of out of print albums (on CD and vinyl) and there has been for over 30 years. That is something that sells someone else’s work without consent. The internet sites discussed here do not charge for the recordings.
And as to that $200 ebay album... the artist, the label, and the songwriter see none of the proceeds of sales of original copies of out of print albums on the used/secondary sale market. (exception being some small garage band that kept a dozen copies of their high school disc and are informed as to what prices their little single brings today, say $800 for a 45).
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It’s interesting to see how the internet has lengthened the marketing “tail” on any given product.