My story is only somewhat related (being about not the sound quality of a certain pressing, but rather its musical content), but anyone who likes Tom Petty is likely to also like T Bone Burnett. I bought T Bone’s 1980 Truth Decay album on Takoma Records, and loved it. I had the copy for a few years, not listening to it during the time my system was becoming more revealing. Hearing it again on that system disclosed just how noisy the LP was, so I took it into my local Tower Records (at which I had established a relationship as a good, repeat customer) for a different copy. I put that copy on the turntable, and was pleased that it indeed had lower surface noise.
I was however very surprised when the Rockabillyish-song which closes side 1, "Driving Wheel", ended; rather than the song starting up again after a false ending as it had on the first copy, on the second it simply ended. The rest of the song was missing! I looked at the bottom of the back side of the LP cover, and discovered that the new copy, while still on the Takoma Records label, was being distributed by Allegiance Records, not Chrysalis as had been the original copy. Allegiance had obviously remastered the LP for their release, and the engineer had not realized the false ending was just that.
I returned the second copy, and the clerk retrieved the first copy from the stores back room. Good thing I played the Allegiance Records-distributed LP immediately! If you go looking for an LP copy of Truth Decay, make sure the cover says "Distributed by Chrysalis Records"!