Far too many remastered cds are overly compressed, mainly to sound louder, in
your face, and there is an arguement that "young people" like this.
Hence the growing value in earlier 80's CDs (that we all thought sounded terrible!?) that may not always have the detail of the remaster but are more
likely to have a flat EQ and less compression.
You can almost lose the will to live reading all about this
at www.stevehoffman.tv where there will certainly a thread comparing
the two versions. You can also search the forum via Google.
i dont think its aimed at young people really, if a radio station can only broadcast at a certain volume then a compressed version would sound louder than one with a large dynamic range. Radio is how most people here new tracks and then go and buy them. Stations are in competition to be heard and chosen over others so i would imagine that they would be all for this compression. Commercial radio stations like Radio 1 and such are mainly listened to in the work place with a lot of background noise too so the quieter bits of the track would be lost anyway. Just my thoughts on why they seem to be doing this really