Yes, it's a bit ironic that if you buy a "format re-purchase" CD (released sometime in the 1980's and a variant of an album originally released on LP only, in other words before 1984 on LP and after 1984 on CD) that it will probably be a straight digitizing with the master tape's dynamic range unmolested. Versus buying a "Digitally Remastered" edition, released probably after Y2K, with the dynamics squashed down to maybe 5 dB, and quite possibly 1 or 2 dB. Worse, maybe hundreds of instances of digital clipping encoded on the disc.
Don't be afraid of the Remainders' Bin ... those $3 CDs with the cheezy 1-page graphics that are AAD transcriptions of the master tape (not the LP, but the same as what was cut to the LP) are quite possibly better 16/44.1's than the fancy Box Set Remastered Editions they are pushing out these days.
Finally the Record Companies figured out that people over 35 don't buy much music compared to younger people but are the only ones buying the highest profit versions ... actual CDs (they are a little dense that way ... always the last to figure out what everyone on the planet already knows). So they are releasing ever incresing editions of pre-1990 music, often in Box Sets, with those things in them ... what are they called again? ... oh Yeah ... CDs. But they are the Remastered versions, which usually are salvos in the war from the bad side.
There is hope; however. With regulations mandating (finally!!) that commercials cannot have perceived loudness (essentially, RMS levels) higher than the program material on television, broadcast radio, etc what is happening is that enabling software and protocols are being developed (and are in use) that moderate the need for "loudness war" audio. This is happening worldwide: the EU, various States like Australia, New Zeland, not to mention USA and Canada. So, we just might see a little backing off of the rediculous compression practices when mastering music.
I'm not saying the war has been won by the good side, but some of the battles are going our way, at last.