What's with all the new colored vinyl?

It’s because most of this new vinyl is being bought up by kids/teens...they like flashy colored vinyl...I can’t say that I have not bought some, not many. I generally stick to buying older vinyl, sometimes still sealed, mostly in VG+ condition. I find the older stuff sounds much better.

All that matters is the quality control at mastering and production.

Natural pvc has no colour, additives and black carbon (has conductive properties also) strengthen the lp and make it black and in the long run it would probably last longer. Colouring is a dye nothing more but pleasing to the eye and give a nice alternative, making more desirable some releases. True with clear and coloured ones imperfections are not easily noticed but sonically are equal to the black ones.

I would avoid, for sound quality only, the pictured ones being the thinner.

The main concern for most of the companies that sell records is how many they sell, definitely not sound quality, except for some small labels. If coloring the vinyl sells more copies, they’ll color the vinyl.