Any advice on buying quality vinyl

Never had a good experience from Discogs yet and will not waste my time again there.
Only 1 really bad album purchased on eBay that was not as I expected or described and I got a full refund in that case.
Between eBay and my LRS I am all set for my albums.

I bought two brand new vinyl few weeks ago at Target in a sale.
Both new pressings, not reissues or remastered.
One, Mumford&Sons is just flat and tuneless, lifeless in the extreme.
The other, Traces by Steve Perry is excellent, very well done and is actually one of my goto reference recordings now as it is minus pops etc and exceedingly good SQ.

But I would have to say that was more luck than judgement.

Playing right now though is a $1 Kinks album on Arista label and it is divine.

+1 folkfreak!

Ime great condition original pressings are still hard to beat.
Usually a good us clean and you are ready to rock.

I am sure you will get lots of varied opinions on this one.