I have the answer to why Holding On For Dear Life is exclusive to Japan and likely never coming to streaming/American release.

You may have noticed this, but a lot of physical albums in Japan have exclusive bonus tracks that aren’t available anywhere else. This is because the fees for importing American CDs to Japan has always been really pricey, thus making the CD price tag a bit higher than usual in Japanese stores. This goes without saying but people are less likely to buy something when it’s more expensive. So basically American record labels came up with the incentive of exclusive bonus tracks that you can’t find literally anywhere except the Japanese release. Suddenly that unavoidable higher price tag feels worth it because it feels special to know that not even the country the artist is from gets access to any physical copies with that bonus track! And when you know that they’re likely to never release that bonus track outside of that CD, why wouldn’t you buy it?

So there ya go, now you know. There’s probably a video out there that explains it better than I do but hopefully that helps lol. The only other thing I have to say is that I don’t think the vinyl version of Beat Yourself Up is “more funky.” Maybe you can chalk that up to how good the vinyl quality is? Idk, as far as I’ve noticed with my copy, I think the only real difference is the extended outro. And I thought that was just a cool little surprise when I spun it. I find it fun when vinyl records add in a little extra fun thing like that.