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