Tool (2) – Lateralus

Love the album. One of the best looking vinyls I own, unfortunately the sound quality is pretty bad. Constant static throughout the album brings you out of the experience.

Coolest discs I own. Basically bout the album for the art. Maynard has excellent writing on the album. However , a touch of distortion and overall not being a huge tool fan earns this album a solid 4.

Yeah, I couldn't even listen to this. It sounds horrible. Bad fidelity. Flat. Just a really bad pressing of an otherwise fantastic album. Picture disks are typically really bad, anyway. So, I wasn't surprised.

It does crackle and I've put a bunch of effort into trying to clean my copy (wet play etc). I've got to the point that I play it and try and tune out the crackle because when the band kicks in it's a pretty great sounding thing and they well and truly drown out the surface noise.

Very unique picture disc and gatefold, but the sound is very noisy, if you buy this for display or as a fan must have it's okay but if you want the audio, it's not great.

Yeah, this is one I wish I would have ed on (as I usually do with picture discs).
Jumps on Patient, Schism, and Parabola.
Print on C Side is extra noisy.
Guess I'll keep as a collectible until a proper pressing shows up.

Beautiful but it just doesn’t sound good. First album is slightly warped and side B sounds off. Beautiful to hang on the wall but not for audiophiles.

This album sounds like ass. I have mine hanging in two very nice frames on my wall and now I only listen to the CD. Buy this to collect or for decoration but I wouldn't ever listen to it again.

I wish i had seen all the comments about noisy albums b4 buying. Each side is just cracks & pops. Being a picture disc is no excuse bc i have a 2-3 other picture discs that sound flawless on both sides.

I recently ordered two sealed copies of this from different sellers. The first arrived with marks all over the casing and unstuck sleeves. The sound on disk 1 was woeful (I expected this) and the second disk wouldn't even fit on my player with a large white scruff on the side. I got a replacement copy to hopefully resolve the presentation issues but had similar problems. Packaging was much better but disk 2 won't fit on my player again and this time it's disk one with the white scruff. Perhaps a bad batch but will have to leave it, at least for now.