BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ????

Paraneer,

Lots of local to me record stores stacking a new releases on vinyl have descent policy. Apparently you can run into the defected copy or warped one. I ran into the warped vinyl and got that one easily and painlessly exchanged. The suppliers actually accept the defected ones and exchange. Must be real defect though. I've seen various such as uneven surface bump(s) or heavy warp. Both SHOULD qualify for exchange.
On one of the The CAN releases "Tape Sessions" I had to wait couple of weeks till they get better batch of flat records.
Suppliers do find ways to work out the defect situation with retail stores to void hit-or-miss kinda business. Not sure what kind of deal B&N has with suppliers. Perhaps they go for larger profit margin than local retailers.

The OP said nothing about a warp czarivey.  I agree - that would clearly be a defect and not visible unless the packaging is opened.  This discussion is about surface noise and this could be inherent in a poor quality pressing.  It could even be the equipment the OP is playing the LP on.  

I still think that B&N was very fair to off an exhange.  

Thank you guys!! for your help, the table that I have is a SME model 15 and my other vinyl played very well on it,the vinyl from Barnes &Noble was badly warped, and they did  take the vinyl back,and yes the thickness in vinyl does MAKE  A DIFFERANCE, other's have returned very thin vinyl back because of quality, i have started to invest in more MOFI releases with 180 gram, it work's for me.

I got the Beatles 67 70 all analog new release there.  Sounds pretty good

Somewhat recent purchases from Barnes and Noble: 45 RPM Richard Thompson 2 record album, Ricky Lee Jones new thing, Sergeant Pepper LP to replace my original beat to crap version…all sound GREAT, so I recommend not worrying about it.