V. Morrison Moondance reissue vs 2nd press what is the fascination with digital on vinyl?

It's my term (though I think shared by others) that it's not some special copy behind the counter on display but put into the 'bin' of used records that are sold at "regular" "cheap" prices. Now that I'm down in Austin, I hit a few stores here, including Waterloo- the new vinyl is all racked up and shiny, alphabetized and categorized. The used stuff- well, they have a handful of "collectibles" on the wall, but most of it is in the bins, organized by the day of the week it came in. You just gotta sort through it. Typical classic hard rock, lot's of schlock (though that's subjective I guess); Waterloo pricing is like $4.99 to 12 or maybe 15 bucks for these old records. Condition varies. (I've scored big on jazz there b/c no one seems to buy it. You'll  almost never find a Zep record in those bins though). :)

Thanks, @whart

I see no point buying re-issued vinyl that isn't mastered from the original master tapes.   Mobile Fidelity for one does this extremely well from my perspective.

I found a copy of "Moondance" at a record show years ago on Direct-Disk Labs that is easily superior to my RTI copy. I don't think it's fair to lump all re-issue labels in one pile.

The only ones I know that have done it on a regular basis are Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Classic Records, and Music Matters.  Older ones are Speakers Corners, Nautilus, and Simply Vinyl.  So I would say unless its an all digital recording from Day one, unless its on one of these labels, buy the originals.

Then of course there are the mastering engineers. 

Another thing would be if its digital, why put it on a record to begin with?

If it was so expensive to make an analog record in the past, how did they do it?   why did they change things?  Sort of like Plasma.  The new TVs have black blacks, crushed blacks that is and look almost cartoon like in presentation of film and video.  Some things just do not get better, they get cheaper.