I don’t know what kind of people you hang out with but I buy my vinyl to play it. It’s a bummer when you buy new vinyl to only open it and it’s warped to the point that you can surf on it.
For example, I purchased this record new, upon inspecting it I noticed this (video below), thinking I might have gotten a defective record I purchased another copy of the same record and the same issue was present. This is not the first new vinyl record that I purchased within a year that had this issue. This resurgence in vinyl popularity forces manufactures to just crank them out with no care to quality, then again can you blame them when the majority of the people buying records now a days are using Crosley record players or other cheap players.