Evan Eisenberg, in his book/essay "The Recording Angel", referring to recordings as works of art, said that in the "great majority of cases, there is no original musical event that a record records or reproduces.

Instead each playing of a record is an instance of something timeless. The original musical event never occurred; it exists, if it exists anywhere, outside history".

Put that in your pipe and smoke it next time you dig out old Martina albums and hear something new.