New cube?

I had been doing a used Rubik's cube just for fun that I got from work. I figured I'd buy a new one and it would be nice and smooth. I was wrong. I bought the 50th anniversary cube and it's so so janky and hard to move. Like almost impossible to spin it. I've seen some threads that say to solve the cube a couple hundred times, but I might go insane before I get to that point. Any tips?