Fear Inoculum in Vinyl

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.

It was only released as an expensive vinyl box set. It would be nice if they released the vinyl in a very basic package but the CD was lavishly packaged and they never released a less expensive version so they will unfortunately probably do the same with the vinyl.