Warped LP's

There will always be a significant percentage of records that arrive warped.  Just return them, and buy another copy.  The less expensive record flatteners do not work well, and it’s not worth the trouble.  I have no experience with the $2,000+ record flatteners, but they probably work, but not worth purchasing just to flatten a $30 record.

Yeah with the prices of vinyl getting a wrapped one really sucks.

Love my ORB. I chose to invest in it around 15 years ago. 

I was buying around $500 a month in lps for a few years, so it's been used quite a bit.

Exchange the defective LP. If the warp is minor and other than that the record is perfect, consider keeping it. 
I just bought a brand new Cassandra Wilson Blue Light Till Dawn directly from blue note and the 2nd LP has a minor warp. I requested a replay which was sent promptly but it has the exact same issue. I won’t bother replacing it. It’s too minor and other than that great record. 

Played through the whole album and as stated before, it seems ok, so I will keep it.

But I almost tripped out when I got to side D or what I thought would be side D.

At first, it didn't look right to me and I thought, oh no, this is defective also and will need to return.

But then I quickly realized that how the album is, it doesn't have a side D. I have never seen a double LP with only 3 sides to play (live and learn I guess).

Side D is just an image without any grooves. I thought that was interesting.