Jay, forget vinyl. When I visited NYC last year, I purchased like 20 expensive brand new 180g jazz LPs.Two of them being 45rpm LPs. When I started to listen to them....pure frustration!!!. Some of them, out of the sealed cover, already showed a few pops and clicks right away.Quite irritating and a waste of money. Listening to vinyl in this century is absolutely ridiculous. Long live the well recorded CDs !!!! By the way : I own a very good high end system, which makes listening to vinyl a real torture. Don't waste your time and money with "cleaning" devices. I have tried several "techniques". You may mitigate it, but bear in mind that noise from vinyl is non-removable !!! Good luck..That is quite some first post! lol.
If you had read through this thread you would see the part of "new" albums has been covered quite extensively.
And as for cleaning being a waste of time and money, obviously you are entitled to your opinions but I would try to avoid making false blanket statements.
Good luck to you too and enjoy those CD,S as do I along with records, cassette tapes, reel to reel tapes, FM radio and internet streaming .