How can I tell what version of an LP is best ?

I have never messed with 'which pressing is the best' stuff.
I try to just find any clean copy of material used.
Finding the 'best' copy? not enough time to be bothered.
Perhaps if I run into some MFSL the store forgot to mark up the price.. but to waste time seaching for them is just not for me.
One could go to the sites which sell (what the site claims are) 'special' "hot stampers" and pay the exorbitant premium prices, and feel good because someone else claims you now have better copies of the same old stuff.
I spend my time looking for music i do not own that I want.
And I have no plans to bother searching for better editions of stuff i own.

I can understand folks asking me: 'well you spend a lot of time on stereo equipment so isn't that the same thing?' My answer is.. yeah, in some ways.. but i do not obsess over cables, or other little bits.. Which i associate way more with the search for slightly better editions of recordings.
So that is my response.
It is like the tipping point: at what personal point am i satisfied? And it is way short of chasing after mythical stampers...
But if i ran into a superior recording, by chance, yeah i might try it.

Amusing the drone on forums and audio rags of the vinyl/analog superiority and disparaging of CD medium. Jolly too the backslapping of support elicited and received from that modest bunch. Well done! Go team go, we're #1 rah rah.

Airegin - you have a nice system. I wonder why virtually every high-end digital manufacturer compare their products sound like analog? Not all, but most. Maybe there's something to it?

I agree with Airegin. CD is just as good as vinyl. they do have different flaws. but each has them.
Perhaps some folks just find certain flaws easier to ignore?
I find both Lp and Cd to be just fine. And own LPs as buying used Lps is fun.
But I do have to laugh at the 'vinyl is better' fanboy crowd. It ain't better, just different.

I'd like to believe gold standard should be audio reproduction closest to music performed live regardless of tube or SS or needle or laser or vinyl or compact disc - but your point well taken.