I didn't mean to stir up a discussion about "No donations - bad leecher" sort of things. I thought it might sound like so, and sadly it kinda hit into that direction. But let me give me my personal picture of it:
Retromatic is probably, besides ChunYinZi and Craig-UK (and one or two more) the one who publishes CDs or general 1990+ material. He is a very minority. I don't know how that sounds, probably a bit cheesy, but there is not much resonance "around here" for that material. Whilst record shares has a small tornado of users like Sub, Retronic, Greta, stackjackson, Fuzi, and all working together to fill gaps, share release dates, research about composers and all that "good mood" these threads ooze, Retromatic is (or was) very much alone here. When I looked up the missing release dates, I enjoyed he was glad about that and responded. I am not a psychologist, but I think for users like him, the incentive to be here and share is very low. Even when I discovered LMT, I first thought it's a record sharing website for jazz and retro kitsch. I kid you not. The whole looks of the forum banner and all. And the lack of interest in digital/CD releases in general (which I personally also faced when I firstly joined) which kind of alienate Retromatic and his gigantic collection of gems even more around here. The few responses can be summed up as: "We don't really care about CDs".
If we could start the same good vibes around this like "over there in the vinyl record section" and up the appreciation more, there might be more going on. As said many times before, I would contribute financially for someone else purchasing rare gems, but I don't want to do that alone and since I collect only maybe one or two tracks out of a disc, my contribuations would be small. The CD/>1990 sharing section has just no real "drive" going on.
I want to put emphasis that I do not want to divide the users here of any kind. We all have different interests and likes, and that is good. If you can't find the same sound, vibes et cetera on CD or digital releases, why should you bother? I do get that. Just like I leave out any release before 1975. I just want to speak out loud what is going on here very evidently - a hard cut between the record era and CD era. I like both sides of the fence as I collect music over 3 decades. Actually, we at LMT also completely leave out 2005 and later. So even there is some cut going on.
I hope I do not regret pouring out my soul here by hit "SUBMIT", but I gotta do voice that feeling I have.