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Does he really mean keep the blogs as in transferring all existing blog entries over to a new site, or just keeping the blog functionality. Because shit, I wouldn't not care one tiny bit if all of my blogs fell off the face of the earth.
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Peter's one big rule with forums he runs is that he never throws anything away. Posts are never deleted unless they are pure and utter spam, and even then it sometimes isn't deleted. That's why we have a subforum called Necrum that has so much junk in it. Simply losing all those old blogs is unthinkable for him and for the sake of historic value I kind of agree. Though I also think it wouldn't be the biggest loss in the world if it somehow couldn't be done.
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Why not just open up a Paypal donation button, and have the forums financed by the community? It seems the most logical solution. What's the price range we're looking at? It seriously can't be too expensive to warrant not upgrading.
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Crowd funding is certainly one way to go. We're talking roughly 200 - 250 dollars, so depending on how many people are willing to contribute that should be fairly easy to get together.
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The bigger issue is probably finding a replacement blog plugin for the new forum.
e: and if people are that uptight about the format they read old blogs in, what’s stopping us from just leaving the old forum up as a read-only archive?
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There is a very advanced blogging plugin for Xenforo (many more features than what Vbulletin offers), so that's not really the issue. Leaving the old forum up as an archive is actually a really good idea, regardless of how we handle the migration.