It is so frustrating to pay twice the price of a cd for an album and have as much surface noise as a $4.00 used LP.
But the downside, for the dealers, is that they eat it. The record distributer and pressing company retain their profits and let the dealers just take it in the shorts. What needs to be done is to have a method of exchange with the pressing company that made the bad copy in the first place. If they started having to cut into their profit margins and absorb the cost. Maybe they would develope the accountability for charging what they do for an LP. They may even take on the responsibility of better quality at pressing. If they spend the time to remaster a title, then they should finish the job and maintain that level of quality to acheive it's final goal, a better than original release LP.
I think that we AudioGon members should form a coalition that will boycott recordings that will only buy from those companys that offer consistancy in quality. We must be the majority of the customer base, what other demographic can they be targeting? Food for thought...
