"The original or the remix?"

  These last couple of years it seems like songs are being remixed left and right.  It's becoming a reoccurring question as to if the song you're listening to is the original or if its a remixed version or sampled from an already existing song. The good thing about this is that instead of burning out your new favorite song by listening to it over and over, you can listen to an altered version and mix things up a little bit every once and awhile.
  The part about this thats quiet aggravating is this: someone puts on a song claiming they've discovered the next big hit, when really the song there hearing is a remixed version of a different song.  Proceeding this is a huge discussion/ argument about if it really is a remix or which version came first or who the original artist was and so and so forth.
  Furthermore the original artist of the new popular remixed song tends to get no credit.  While everyone is jamming to the new altered beat and rhythm of a song, they forget that without the original artist there would be no remix at all.
  Give credit where credit is due.