I didn't pick up NTAE, but I just ordered AV on vinyl from Amazon, making this the first new NIN release I've bought since 2002. "The Background World" is so good, and "This Isn't The Place" is wonderful. Long live Atticus-NIN.
Also, judging from the (very pixelated) vinyl scans, the lyrics don't appear to be wrapped in pseudocode (judging by the line breaks). I wonder why they'd drop that conceit.