I have noticed this for years... my recordings from vinyl (separated into tracks) would be replaced with someone else's needle-drop but theirs had a skip in it... then the skip would disappear. sheesh.

I have wondered, when I find an obscure recording that is clearly a needle drop... and I have no problem with that, how many miles of master tapes have been trashed, lost or destroyed ... I wonder if the original artists are collecting their tiny bits of royalty. Where do those fractions of a penny goand are those destinations legitimate?