Why is most everything remastered?

I'm amazed how many 1950-1960's treasures I've found in the thrift stores. Nothing can compare to the sound of these old records. The engineers knew what they were doing back then, a lost art, gone forever....scoop up that old vinyl. 

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"Those records might be going cheap nowadays, but at the time they were quite expensive prestidge items."

betterrecords.com is selling some of these records for hundreds of dollars...even on ebay the prices are sometimes crazy. I like it when I find some of these old records still in great shape in the thrift store for a buck. They are getting a bit harder to find In good shape, as a lot of them have been trashed. I’ll never understand how someone could have been so careless with some of these gems.

Just a few examples,  got a NM Sheherazade Fritz Reiner RCA white dog pressing for 12 bucks on Discogs.  Today, at local thrift store, I picked up a vg++ to NM copy of Capital records rainbow  -mono-  Carousel, with a young Shiley Jones, one dollar.