Why did my BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED vinyl disc sound like an old tape at first listen?

Question

Supposedly LPs sound better than CD if the LP in question hasn't been played in a poor/mediocre quality LP player, yet I bought a BRAND NEW copy of SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET: THE BEST OF OINGO BOINGO (I could tell it was brand new 'cause it had a self-advertisement-type sticker on it that would be expensive to re-recreate...) and opened it and put it in my LP player and there was this like siren-sounding thing before the music started playing and the music in general sounded kinda faint...should I just buy used LPs that were handled with extra care or what? If so, then why?

Answer 1

Hi. Do your other records you have sound ok,and it is only this one that sounds bad ?