A cheap table can ruin records due to cheap needles and poor tracking. When the price gets up around $300 is about when you start getting some quality. A plastic shell, platter, or tone arm are all big no-no's. If you are serious about vinyl look for a Technics SL-1200. New will be about a grand and used still fetch a pretty high price. They are built like tanks and have fantastic sound with an easily adjustable weight tuning system and needle swap. This is why they have been the DJ standard for 50 years.

If you are a serious listener avoid picture disk vinyl, those are only good for display and collecting. Colored vinyl is fine, picture vinyl uses a thin layer of clear plastic for the grooves. The plastic layer starts out with subpar quality and rapidly get worse.