i have to say, these thoughts about remixing just don't come into my mind. when i watch an old b/w movie, i don't think: gosh, this would be so much better with modern cgi or colour.
this is all about changing the appearance, not the idea, the soul of the art itself. this is all about technics. better recordings, better sound. who cares? i wouldn't mind if they would go in the studio and just record old tracks new. make it different or something. but to change the old recording just doesn't makes sense to me.
and there are a lot of remixes of the songs anyway. when they play live, they change the songs a little and i like that so much. we have another imperial day in accapella, we have differnet verisions of ocean rising, there was this wonderful and kinda funny reggae version of stupid questions, they do acoustic sets and the last tour with all the extra instruments was such a joy to listen to and experience and stunning and widened the perception of the songs. just watch the version of no mirror no shadow. wow!!
i have the remastered editions of the albums and i don't listen to them. with purity they (whoever did this) even made it worse.
and i can understand pols reaction to some comments here. but hey, it's all just opinion and we can talk about this.