Did you ever wonder what newspaper vendors do with day-old, unsold copies of a rag like the NY Times? I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing that it becomes so much trash (as if it wasn't from the beginning). My point is, if you can find some vendor who has left-over copies of that glorious edition, you might get him/her to donate them to posterity instead of tossing them out.

That way, you can get your eBay copies without giving the slimes at the Times a dime. Just a thought.