While jason_b is in fact pointing you to the root of many analog evils, i think you are simply hearing the bad quality of most pressings, especially after much use.
Sorry, but unless you spend a mint and buy all new, specialty pressings, really good digital will trounce analog every time. Of course very few have heard really good digital since it demands paying attention to things like isolation between noisy digital components - not necessarily a big monetary expense, but an investment in understanding and time.
One great pressings any of my three tables (significantly higher end, with decades of care and improvements) sound fantastic. On 95% of my records tho, they sound like, well, i prefer to listen to Tidal through Roon, Consistently. By a lot.
Realism from a tweek who's been down the vinyl road long before it was trendy, and just in the last year brought a great old table back from the edge.
G