sorry guys, i think i said the wrong think there. it's just we'd had a whole week of the skull tunes debate which was totally mental and then this. i was sure that most of this had been addressed in the other post you see. of course i care about this issue. i dunno why i said i didn't.
my official stance:
sampling direct from vinyl is not really doing techno any favours. i personally don't do it anymore.
sampling from sample cd's is ok, but you must do things to craft the original into your own loop or else we get the whole skull tunes senario again.