IMO the band wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without the claymation videos. Claymation was a big thing in the early 90s, following The Dancing Raisins, I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Green Jelly’s Three Little Pigs, and more. Tool aimed Sober at the creepy, brooding, dark teen/young-adult male market and hit a home run. Then kept at making creepy videos for the next few albums.
I personally learned to never buy a used Tool CD. The seller would say “excellent” condition and it would arrive scratched and unusable. This happened 3 times! (I was a slow learner.)
I rate A Perfect Circle’s Thirteenth Step equal to any Tool album (as a spinoff band), but only that album.