As much as I'd love to be assured that everything I loved was released as a jaw-droppingly good sounding recording/remaster/etc, I admit the fact that they aren't makes finding the standouts that much more exciting. Plus in many cases even though the fidelity might be better on an old record (my original RCA Living Stereos and such), in many cases those albums have been played since the 50s(!) and as such do not have the silent, inky blackness from which the music emerges like the reissues do. I just replayed N.I.B. from the Rhino Black Sabbath S/T and it is like a freight train rolling through my living room. Good grief I can't get enough music!
Also looking forward to the BDP24 (Boogie Down Productions?) recommendations, as well as many others. For all of the grousing, infighting and general crankiness of the denizens of this site, AG is still the first thing I check out when I open my computer in the morning.
