BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ????

The OP said nothing about a warp czarivey.  I agree - that would clearly be a defect and not visible unless the packaging is opened.  This discussion is about surface noise and this could be inherent in a poor quality pressing.  It could even be the equipment the OP is playing the LP on.  

I still think that B&N was very fair to off an exhange.  

Thank you guys!! for your help, the table that I have is a SME model 15 and my other vinyl played very well on it,the vinyl from Barnes &Noble was badly warped, and they did  take the vinyl back,and yes the thickness in vinyl does MAKE  A DIFFERANCE, other's have returned very thin vinyl back because of quality, i have started to invest in more MOFI releases with 180 gram, it work's for me.

I got the Beatles 67 70 all analog new release there.  Sounds pretty good

Somewhat recent purchases from Barnes and Noble: 45 RPM Richard Thompson 2 record album, Ricky Lee Jones new thing, Sergeant Pepper LP to replace my original beat to crap version…all sound GREAT, so I recommend not worrying about it.

Man, don't you guys have a real record store in your town?! If I had to rely on B & N as my only source for locally-bought LP's, I'd hafta move!