Generally speaking what you describe is not uncommon at all. I've never heard of Vinyl-On-Demand so I can't comment on the quality. Many current pressing plants like United Record Pressing absolutely suck in terms of quality. There are very few pressing plants left in the world that are high quality. I can count them on one hand.
Quite often what you are hearing is the residue from mold release agent. That's why you clean new albums right out of the sleeve. Discwasher fluid and brush won't do anything. You have to use an enzymatic liquid cleaner (ie. Audio Intelligent #15) to remove all the gunk hidden in the grooves. Admittedly it would be difficult to remove the cleaning fluids without some kind of a vacuum type cleaning machine such as a VPI or Nitty Gritty.
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