Fear Inoculum in Vinyl

I know the engineer on that record and it was recorded extremely well and sounds very good IMHO.  He is the master at guitar sound and drums.  He also recorded 10,000 Days.    Hes done some Queens Stone Age records and Slipknot too.  I think he is the single best rock engineer out there.   He was featured in Sound City movie.  Anyone watched that?  

OF course the LP sounds different from the CD!  But why does one HAVE to be better than the other and why argue about two different delivery mediums that people use?  They are different surely, and we get to choose which one we like.  Isn't that enough?   

Brad

We all waited quite a while for this. Rumors of it coming out 2 years ago on RSD did not pan out as I think that RSD got cancelled due to pandemic. I had a buddy in town the other day who also collects vinyl. We went to see my vinyl guy and I kiddingly asked him when Fear Inoculum was arriving. He said he already sold 5 and kept 1 for himself. I was like, "Huh?". Didn't even know it had come out as I kinda just gave up on it happening. He said he could order me one but would be $189. Understandably, everyone has to eat. I said that I would let him know. We stopped at 1 more record store on the way home and there it was. Still sealed and $139. Mine. My favorite Tool on vinyl this far. I think they could have pressed onto 3 albums, etched the final side, priced at $99, and probably have sold more. 

Why such a limited production run of the LP?? 

Cousin bought me the new Tom petty LP, I purchased the 2 LP GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY DBL vinyl, vacuumed, ran it on the platter, and not a pop, tick, absolutely great, my old records, most have some pops and ticks during playback, 

   The sound is relaxing, my dogs stay in the room, as for cd, dogs will get up and leave the room from the inaudible frequencies only dogs hear. 
 

  I love my,records, love my,CDs, love my LP TO CD transfers I do,myself, a few pops, but I like it, good late 70’s and early 80’s memories of Dad playing,records in the evening.  Pops, ticks, etc don’t bother me at all.

Was Fear Inoculum only released as a box set? Has there been any news if there will be a standard album release? Waiting all these years for a new album and the price is $179.