milford moore

Hello, All I am a very new member to this forum so please bear with me if this query is "old hat". I have always been a lover /collector of vinyl. Recently I have upgraded my stereo system - not to audiophile standards but a good system nonetheless. - and begun purchasing a few new LPs. I have been very disappointed to discover that the quality of the pressings of new releases seems to be very hit and miss. "The Best of Diana Krall" on the Verve label sounds fantastic, as does Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" on Capitol, and "The Best of Julie London" on the Real Gone label. Others, Annie Lennox "Nostalgia", Lee Ann Womack's "The Lonely, the Lonesome, and the Gone" on ATO, and Norah Jones' "Day Breaks" on BlueNote sound terrible. Muddy sound and lots of surface noise. (A great many of my albums - in fact I would say most - that I bought in the 1970s and 1980s still sound fab). I don't understand this. Is it simply a matter of bad pressings with these new LPs? - and if that's the case it seems to me that the purchasing new vinyl is something of a crap shoot. Will this record sound good or not so good. Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated. I'm also confused as to the source of newly pressed vinyl. If the particular disc I purchase is a new recording as opposed to a re-issue that has been sourced from an original analog master, and since very few artists record to analog tape these days, what am I actually getting? If it's a digital recording pressed into vinyl, what's the point? Doesn't this defeat the whole analog experience which is why we keep on with turntables and vinyl? Help! All the best, milford moore