New LP with pops + crackle, What is expected?

Totally agree. I've spent a fortune (at least in my book) on albums that have so much noise whether it be from a pop, click or groove noise.

Vendors have been extremely fair in exchanging these but I'm out of the shipping cost back to them.

I'd like to know that answer to this question myself.

Thanks!

I just started a sting about noisey vinyl similar to this a few weeks ago. I agree 100%, I've started pretty much looking only for v good used vinyl where I can now.

I believe some of the posters on here got it right, that the expertise, domestically in the US, to press vinyl is limited. Older vinyl tends to sound better on the whole.

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...

I stopped buying new records. When you look here, lots is written about that.

I stopped buying "New" vinyl from the online stores. I will buy NOS online. Used vinyl played with a deep tracking cartridge/stylus works well for me.