Released through Mr. Reznor's own Null Corporation record label, the soundtrack is already available as a download, and will be later released as both a three-CD and six-LP record set.

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You open up the briefcase, and it's got an LP-sized record player and a small cassette player.

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That it remains so nearly 60 years later and in the face of much estimable competition suggests that from the start it was considerably more than a worthy addition to the burgeoning catalog of complete operas filling record-store shelves in the years following the introduction of the LP.

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Yet vinyl continued its improbable rise (which I wrote about more extensively last year) as LP sales soared 17.7% to 4.6 million, setting a new SoundScan Era record for the fifth consecutive year.

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When that record came out, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, I probably wore out--it was on an LP, of course, so I probably wore out two or three of those, and I always wanted to play it, even in person, but I couldn't come up with a way to do it without the voices.

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