Bad vinyl

I have had a few bad batches my self. Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane...new reissue. So scratched and sounded terrible.

Neil Young Greatest Hits. Grainy and terribly trebly. Side 4 sounded good but the rest was not good. 

Bill Evans Jim Hall was so warped my VPI went into disco mode.

Returned them to my local shop. No questions.

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I had to return two copies of Daniel Ratcliffe's album due to very poor sound... have heard AM radios that sounded better. I swear that they weren't pressed hard enough. The MP3 sounded better which is truly sad lol

sorry... also returned two copies of a Janis Joplin "Pearl" repress that had more ticks and pops than my original copy! Gave up on that one.

i have the same experience and frustration... recently back into analog and bought a lot of records ... from all the major vendors - soundstage direct, elusive, musicdirect, etc. i would say 1 of 3 titles is defective... skips, big pops, warps, distortion, ugh.... spend $30 bucks for an album and they are still not properly made and qc’ed!  the 180 gram titles seem to be the worst,,,

I don't buy reissues as most are NOT good i either have originals or nothing.