Reissue recordings with added tracks

in general, "bonus tracks" are mainly an excuse for the label to recycle/resell its catalog. i've purchased a few reissued-with-bonus-tracks cds that were actually worthwhile (uncle tupelo and traffic's john barleycorn come to mind), but typically i'm disappointed--the bonus tracks are either addons which obviously didn't match the quality of the original release or pointless remixes or alternative versions. some of the reissued bowie and badfinger are particularly bad in this regard. i share the sensibilty that the artist's original vision shouldn't be trampled with.

The remasters are of somewhat better quality if they pay attentuion. I like the audiophile samplers such as Burmester on occasion. What gets me though is the incedibly bad job some of the compilations do . It's as if they don't know that the speed of the first track is going much too fast compared with the second . However nothing is worse than using a piece of worn out mastering tape that's horrible sounding. Just exactly how tape a number of people missed the fact that it is dreadful and unlistenable makes you wonder if they hear what they create.
As for extra snippets, I agree Old garbage is still garbage no matter how old it is. This is true even if sadly, the artist is dead or becomes disabled or whatever. The reasoning for not using it is usually obvious and was cut out of the published music catalog for good reasons.
That said-I think of one song which was considered for snippetdom at first which turned out great. It is Ray Charles duet whith Van Morrison doing "Crazy Love ." As I understand it -it was going to be a previously unreleased filler piece. Of course you know a double albumn arose from that. I like Ray Charles' music a lot, but even so, some of that albumn should have been left safely tucked away out of earshot.

.........and to think The Temptations were going to throw "Pappa Was A Rollin Stone" on the back burner!

I like the bonus tracks, especially when they are live versions. Obviously they are added to many remastered/remixed cd's to get current owners to buy the new cd. What's the big deal, there isn't any rule that says they must be played. We all know where the original work ends and the bonus recordings begin. Like Chashmal said, just hit Stop!! Are you not going to buy a remastered cd that is probably sonically better just because it has bonus tracks??