New Record Sounds Like Crap - How???

Well, records can have noise.
Listen to the music, not the noise is my recommendation.
And it is true, modern pressed LPs can be inferior.
In the 'good old days' when millions of LPs were being pressed, a lot of folks KNEW HOW. Now, almost all those dudes have retired or died, and most of the current crop had to learn from scratch. So it is hard to do. AND, when pressing LPs, The continuity of pressing was important. If you pressed 100,000 LPs a day, you had a good system. When you press 5,000 you are hoping for the best, and often not getting it. Trying to go too fast, warps. Pressing only a few and they problems of tossing 20% is not allowed. Press 100,000 and tossing those same few startup LPs is standard.
Cleanliness. Presses sit for weeks without use now. Back in the old days, they ran nearly all the time.
(I buy only old records.)

Elizabeth, I thought there was only one decent pressing plant left in the USA anyhow, Record Technology Inc., in Camarillo CA. They press records for MFSL, Capitol/EMI, Cardas, and probably others (Chesky?, Sundazed?) I'm not sure, but there are probably only a dozen volume pressing plants left in the whole world ;--((

I think there is a company in Nashville and one in New Jersey, but they do like DJ records etc., not new audiophile or re-issues.
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As stated the Buggtussel Vinyl-Zyme Gold is the thing when it comes to mold release. I use it as the first assalt on moldy oldies and brand new LPs.

Listens2tubes,

A small correction if I may: Buggtussel Vinyl-Zyme removes mold, as in spores and mildew. It does virtually nothing to remove "mold release", which is a chemical used in the vinyl stamping process. Mold release chemicals are typically non-organic and would not respond to enzymes.

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Pawlowski,
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Here is another vote for using the combination of Premier and Vinyl-Zyme followed by a final cleaning.
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I think owning both (although, Premier is quite expensive) and experimenting with using the combination on problematic records.
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I also think it is an eyebrow raiser to try both products on records that have already been well cleaned with a good Record Cleaning machine in combination with some of the better cleaning liquids like RRL, Disc Doctor and others.
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Make your final judgment of what you hear on the 3rd listening after cleaning with any product. In my experience, and generally speaking, when records are cleaned, they will sound better after a couple of plays.
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Rgds,
Larry