what to do with a stereo that needs repair

If the repair isn't too costly, fix it and give it to someone who will appreciate it.  BE WARNED, I did something similar for my son and created a monster.  Cheers.

As stager mentioned amps like this are not that complicated for a decent tube technician to repair.  I’ve worked for a couple high end companies, one of which was a well known for their tube gear.  Unless the output transformer is bad which is very rare and is usually only caused by misuse, it typically is just a resistor or two or bad capacitor.  Can’t imagine more than a couple hours or so of repair  and test time.  Meaning shouldn’t be more than a few hundred bucks to repair it.  Most of which being labor.  If you’ve already swapped the tubes from left to right, checked the fuses, etc and still not working Id get it fixed.  
I never saw what area you are in.  I worked with several companies that did repairs for our company.  Maybe one of us can recommend someone near you as shpg. is the worst part of getting anything repaired now days. 

@ghdprentice 

lol

Ah... just mail it to me... I have a tech who is a genius and will touch anything that makes music.