The vinyl market consists mainly of the buying and selling of used records and the repressing of previously released albums, but sometimes the latter are newly remastered. Some vinyl enthusiasts, however, believe that remasters are of lower quality and do not match the quality of the "golden era" of vinyl.
黑膠市場一般以二手片買賣與新版復刻片為主，後者是將母帶修整，加上精良再製技術後的成品。但傳統黑膠擁護者卻認為，重新出版會影響黑膠的品質，無法保持過去「黃金時代」錄製的水準。