Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters?

If a simple remaster then I do not buy them usually. Now a REMIX I will buy as usually they are much better than the original, considering the mix technology then and now...A current remix can be more defined, especially if the remix pushes/retracts certain sounds to make the overall recording better.
ie the Genesis remixes by Nick Davis, the original issues are so veiled its almost unlistenable, he lifted the veil.

So it depends, but we need to understand the difference between REMASTER and REMIX.

I suffered through the same torture. Same results. So many great reviews but the reviews sounded much better then the albums. 

I have all the Nick Davis Genesis , can't remember which ones ,wind and wuthering, trick of the tail, selling england 180s etc .The trick i just got as original japaneese nm sounds great far better imo. The remixes by davis sound good they are very quiet which was never Genesis there early days they had very little money in there setups.I have not had good luck with the remastered 180 g "audiophile" vinyls.They just sound too digitized and usually very bass heavy.Almost every time i go back and grab the original in vg or better it smokes it,minus the obvious use on the lp.I have just started to go after any original or close,The pink floyds etc are just outrageous,300 up for a 77 wall etc.

Pink Floyd´s Japanese "Meddle" ( 2nd edition at least) smokes UK original in dynamics

on eBay:http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-Meddle-NM-NM-JAPAN-70s-LP-EMS-80322-G-F-w-OBI-BOOKLET-INSERT-/302...

Not much to add as I concur with most of what has preceded.  My comments are strictly related to vinyl because in my world CDs are for the car.  Has anyone noticed that the sound of the re-issues everyone is complaining about are exactly what you would get if you tried to make the LP sound like a CD?  IE. bass levels that could never exist in reality, highs going octaves beyond what the instruments and gear in use could produce etc.  Could it be that the people in charge are trying to nullify the differences between the two mediums to wean us away from that oh so problematic vinyl format or perhaps it is so long since they heard anything not digitally sourced they forgot what live sound is?  Another possibility is the engineers are unconsciously compensating for their hearing loss and nobody has the guts to tell a studio god his creation sucks.  Of course these are just general comments and quite a few re-masters are great it's just that too many aren't. 
One topic I have been trying to get going for nearly a decade now is physical quality of the records.  There is some comment about warps (I see you ehtoo) but nobody seems to want to talk about haw quickly these high priced heavy weight pressings develop noise.  The 180 gr are bad and interestingly the 200 gr seem even worse.  Analogue Productions are giving a lot of press to their new Clarity vinyl but don't seem to putting much on it.  Does anyone care to comment on their impressions of durability, good or bad, of new pressings?