As someone who grew up listening to Chris Vrenna's original score for American McGee's "Alice" to the point where I could say it was healthy, news about video game soundtracks with input from members of Nine Inch Nails tends to grab my attention. In this case, it is the announcement of the vinyl release of the "Quake" soundtrack. You know, the genre-defining FPS game released in 1996.

I'm not certain what prompted this release now (there's also the soundtrack to the 2010 film The Social Network, composed by NIN frontman Trent Reznor), but Nine Inch Nails is clearly as aware as everyone else that this came out of nowhere They are as aware as anyone else that this has come out of nowhere. The official Nine Inch Nails Twitter account chose the words "JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT 2020 COULDN'T GET ANY WEIRDER" (the moment you thought 2020 couldn't get any weirder) to open the announcement, and asked if anyone had written this news on their bingo cards He asked if anyone had written this news on their bingo cards.

In an aside comment on the listing, which has since been deleted, Nine Inch Nails said that the record release was to be accompanied by a booklet of essays by two Quake developers, id Software's John Carmack and the aforementioned American McGee, but that "an He stated that the inclusion of the booklet was prevented by "an unnamed video game publisher. He then urged fans to respect the publisher's wishes and not "click here to view the essay or click here to print the booklet." (The first link now redirects to the Nine Inch Nails home page, but the original content can be accessed via the Wayback Machine; the second link takes you directly to a PDF of the booklet.)

If you're a vinyl fan and like to rock out to classic Quake music in this most surreal of years, you can purchase the new release directly from the Nine Inch Nails store for $35/40 pounds.