It may be a shameless cash grab but at $111 it's a pretty inexpensive one considering it's a 7LP box. They could easily have charged twice as much for it and still sold out of them.
In fact it was cheaper than the maudlin of the Well box set, which was only a 4LP + 7". In my case it was a pretty logical purchase considering I only had one of the albums on vinyl and acquiring them this way was actually cheaper than purchasing the others separately would have been
But yeah I'd probably order the CD if I weren't so into LPs these days. I almost sprung for the LP version as soon as it was announced but I'm glad I waited because I'd rather have the box. If that makes me a shameless consumer whore then whatever
I'm not really planning on hawking any of my collection on eBay either. I like having the physical copies. Especially with LPs, where the artwork is generally beautiful.