What's with all the new colored vinyl?

Wouldn't it be nice if every band on a record side were a different color so we'd better know where to cue up the needle? Or how 'bout if the vinyl between cuts were a contrasting color to the rest of the side?

All in all, though, let a thousand colors bloom! It's the music and the quality of the vinyl/pressing that counts,

Hey, I've got a couple of LPs that are cut from the center of the disc outward to the edge. One reason for it was to counteract skating forces...which, of course is obviated by the existence of anti-skate.  Another reason was because classical music usually had its loudest passages at the end of the piece, and cartridges were better able to track them at the outside edge.