Okay, so let’s say it’s the 1980s and Paul McCartney has decided to remix and re-release the entire Beatles catalogue. To make it a big event he modernises the tracks to make them contemporary and closer to his ‘original vision’. He replaces Ringo with modern drum machines, remixes the guitar sounds to something more like Boston or Def Leppard, replaces some of the guitar solos with Eddie Van Halen and Mark Knopfler, and gets Thomas Dolby to add a bunch of Fairlight sound/samples to bring the whole thing ‘into the 80s’. He ditches some of the weirder tracks from the White Album and puts some of his solo material in their place (see ‘Wings’).

Then, when CDs take over as the modern format, only the ‘special edition’ versions of the albums are made available. “I’m sorry you fell in love with the unfinished versions” says Sir Paul “but you have them on cassette and vinyl. Eventually only the special editions will be what’s available…”.

Yes, that would be stupid. And Paul would be lynched.

The original Star Wars trilogy should be available on modern formats. To suggest otherwise is moronic.