Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters?

I got Di Terra recently, original Italian pressing, for reasonable money. (It came from overseas) Ditto, a Le Orme, from a shop in Manchester. Ken Golden hipped me to a decent remaster of Comus, First Utterance and the shop also had a few Le Orme, so I grabbed one to make the shipping cost cover more than one record. There are typically more copies available in EU/UK, but you pay the additional tariff for shipping. I also found an alleged mint- copy of one of the RCA Neons (Indian Summer) which should arrive soon, but Spring, which I have bid on several times and lost, is not easy to find on the cheap. If you are after some of these, you are definitely forced to look abroad--I have occasionally found a few in record shops specializing in "psych" in the States, but not easy. 

Whart , ya no kidding huh.I use to go up the street to my buddys store 
Of Sound MInd and grab a japaneese of this and a uk press of that .Il Belleto De Bronzo in stock lol .He is long since gone as is all my lps from my fire so i am really challenged to find all the old lps i enjoyed for many years.If you ever find or have a good source for some of these lps ,italian german and some english prog stuff hit me up.I am looking around for the original german pressed Eloys also ..
Listening to Gong Exprsesso right now.Who i saw a few times many moons ago ..(David Allen just died last month if you didnt know)

oleschool, I feel your pain.  I also have somewhere near 8000 LPs and have always feared their loss in a fire or earthquake here in parched CA, along with pictures and tapes of my family when they were younger.  I do have all of the original German Eloys that I bought for a song at a local record store years ago and can imagine what they go for these days on ebay.  It is nice that ebay has vastly increased the availability of many titles but also lead to ridiculous price escalation.  Go see what original Island King Crimson LPs sell for.

Speaking of hideously bad remasters, I once bought a MFSL 45 rpm remaster of Patricia Barber Modern Cool and compared it to the original 33 rpm Premonition pressing I had.  On the first track of the $50 MFSL the sonics almost completely disappear during the song, sounding worse than an 8 track tape or transistor radio.  The rest of the LP sounds better but still vastly inferior to the original as all MFSL titles do.  When I tried to return it to Music Direct they denied the whole thing and refused to give a refund.  So I sold it for big bucks on ebay and kept the far superior original.

Ole, a couple of people have urged me to go to one of the Utrecht shows- likely where a lot of this stuff is going to show up. As to prices, I doubt you'll find any bargains on stuff like Il Balletto di Bronzo. But if you wanted to go wild, that's probably the place. The guy I would reach out to here in the States is Ken Golden, who I think I mentioned upthread- he seems more on top of collectible and obscure prog than anybody I know- he does sell new vinyl,  and represents a number of new bands in the prog, prog/metal and fusion areas, but may also have some suggestions for older prog copies or sources. In some cases, there are good older alternative pressings, e.g. the King Records Seven Seas imprint which I think I mentioned earlier. Ken has several companies- i believe they are all under the umbrella of The Laser's Edge. He just wrote a column about some prog obscurities that I published last week.