I get the point you're making, but you're assuming a great deal. Vinyl records came out in the late 1940's. The first digital mastering was 1979 -- and it was

I get the point you're making, but you're assuming a great deal. Vinyl records came out in the late 1940's. The first digital mastering was 1979 -- and it was quite a while before that became the default. So there's a huge window of exclusively analog mastering. And in both cases the likelihood that a random consumer would have access to the original (digital) master is negligible.