While I don't believe people on this side of music care as much about that, I feel like I must say something due to my experience in other art and music communities over the years.
On the bright side, I'll have some more Lithuanian pop to share (a whole new rip!) and I have another tape I need to get to working with. I talked with some people and I've learned a little more about what tools they use and now they rip their music -- while I can't reasonably get to using those kinds of tools, hopefully at some point in the near future I can re-rip and re-assess some (if not all) of the tapes and records I've ever ripped with better equipment. And then I can start posting record rips to this blog!