Yes i do agree with ya, but when you masteriz you can fix any prob of those.... They need to sort that distortion before going into vinyl, if the master is a proper fat tune without loads of distortion and with the kick in its place theres no way they should f*** even more, a proper masterz will delete all phase distort and stuff. It might happen that the labels wanna do a quick and cheapo masteriz and "print" to vinyl, and by doing that the music will suck...
Sometimes i doubt if people do listen in proper monitors, and check in different speakers.