This is an original OFFICIAL 1st pressing of Tool's "Aenima" 2x LP on Zoo/BMG records. I bought this record the week it came out in 1996 and it's been in my collection ever since. This is NOT one of the unofficial reissues. Both original inserts are included. This record has been out of print for long time and, to my knowledge, there has never been an official repressing.

Top 5 album for me. Aftter all these years, a buddy told me about how fantastic the cassette sounds. Just bought one. Can’t wait to hear it, and compare to CD. Etching: Side A: 72445-11052-1-A , Side B: 72445-11052-1-B, Side C: 72445-11052-1-C , Side D: 72445-11052-1-D On the other hand, an authentic second pressing version should have a catalog number of 72445-11087-1.

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The artwork for this album is nothing special. It’s not a picture disc, and the front cover has none of the holographic qualities of the original CD version. So I’ll just talk about the SQ. It’s a cassette. For a cassette it sounds fantastic. If you don’t like the sound of sometimes too clean and crisp CD’s, the cassette will round everything out and make it more natural/warm sounding. Due to the incredibly high prices of official versions of Aenima on vinyl, most of the album’s versions sold online and at your local record store are likely to be bootlegs. A poor, poor counterfeit pressing that offers nothing but a (probable) CD > Vinyl transfer. The actual release of Lateralus by Tool was mixed differently for the vinyl release. This just a sad & poor attempt at making a bootleg. The main reason behind the extremely high prices of Tool’s Aenima album on vinyl is its limited supply and the incredibly high demand for it.

I remember when this album came out. Bought it on CD immediately. I also remember seeing the record displayed at Tower Records. I had given up on vinyl at that point. And the cassette? Forget it. This album has only been released on vinyl twice since it first came out in 1996. Over two decades later, Aenima is Tool’s second highest-selling album, right after Lateralus, with over 3.3 million copies sold. This is a different version, obviously, from the blue version because it is “more complete” as it is a “double album”.As of today, there are only 15,000 official vinyl copies of Aenima in existence. However, there have been rumors that Tool intends to reissue all of their albums on vinyl. If this does happen, it’s expected that the going price for Aenima on vinyl will drop significantly. How Can You Tell the Difference Between Official and Bootleg Versions?

I couldn’t find anything verifying none of us will be able to buy a CD of 10,000 days, Undertow, etc (other than official OOP ones from collectors) end of 2012. I don’t want to make any assumptions about Tool’s items until there’s verification. Partlysourced from Mp3 rubbish floating around on p2p networks in the napster era, some of which isn’t even tool (Wrong way).

Hope this may clear up any rumors or any sort of doubt about the fate of things. However as a collector of all things out of date, i have recently sold VHS tapes and Laser Discs so obviously there is always going to be a market for things out of print, out of date, and the like. Hope to hear some other responses. Hi, I’ve found an offer on discogs for Tool-Aenima and I was wondering if it’s an original press or a good fake. Someone has taken all of the randomly labeled tool mp3’s that floated around in the Napster era and made a bootleg vinyl from them. There’s a nice Tool font used, and some Pink Floyd-ish cover art. The vinyl itself is blue. Santa Monica, a sublime cover isn’t actually even Maynard or Tool. A vinyl pressing with source audio from the 1993 Lollapalooza show in Irwindale. The date listed on the auction of the show is: 7/7/1993. However the show was actually in August, not July. The bootlegger has likely used the same source material as the many CD bootlegs floating around that were made from this source: “Tales From The Dark side”, “Sleep Forever”, “Westwood One” “Opium Den” . Ironically if the bootlegger was more resourceful there are plenty of great Sound Board recordings from 93’ Lollapalooza.