Recorded digitally, released as vinyl: any point to this?

If something is recorded digitally and mastered digitally and such, as the vast majority of albums are nowadays...

is there any way that the record is going to sound better than the CD? Is there any point to buying something like Daft Punk's Discovery on vinyl, apart from vinyl fetishism?

I know that there's probably not a simple answer, but I got into records about a year ago and since new vinyl tends to be more expensive than CDs I wanna know if I'm wasting my money.

Honestly, in terms of sound quality there's probably no reason you'd want to buy Discovery on vinyl over cd. In some cases I think that the mastering for vinyl releases might not be as compressed as for the the cd equivelent, but I'm not sure how common that is.
Vinyl fetishism is key for me here.

The album has to be mastered for vinyl, which means that the same kind of DRC compression is impossible (the needle wouldn't stay in the groove)

Also, not that most people can hear it most of the time, digitally recorded albums are recorded at a higher sampling rate than CD's, so you do get more from vinyl.

So yeah, there is actually a point, though probably not one that would be the extra $2-3 worth of compelling if there weren't other nice things about vinyl.

DRC compression, oy

I think as former hi-fi addict Michael has brought up before on this board, choosing vinyl represents a preference for a certain type of EQ setting more than a quantifiable improvement.

Sample rate is key. I record (my crappy music) in 24/96, which does sound better than 16/44.1. Since most mastering houses can accept hi-rez files like that, what is sent out of the DAC and into compressors/EQ, etc and direct to lathe is at a higher resolution that what you are getting from CD.

Remember also that the digital stereo file might come back into analog to run through mastering boxes before going BACK into digital. Depending on the nature of the recording, that could be the third to fifth trip back and forth between AD and DA stages. I get the impression that (similar to tape) it is the constant bouncing that degrades the audio MORE than just that fact that it is being recorded in digital itself.