1967 here too!
Man, some of this stuff, is sooo good. I own hundreds of CDs, about 1/4 of it from this list.
Much of this stuff is out of print. Finding the stuff, much of it very expensive. Not everything is available yet from download sites.
I’m looking for Seven Days in Sammystown by Wall of Voodoo, have seen stuff going for $250.00
Most of the stuff I would prefer to buy on CD, but a lot of it was never released on CD or if it was there’s maybe one copy on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks like you said.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the early to mid-80s stuff made a huge comeback soon. Us older Gen-Xers are exactly the right age to start getting nostaligic about the music we listened to in high school and college.