THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO US 1968 VERVE 1ST PRESS MONO TORSO BANANA STICKER
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO VERVE V-5008
COVER - NEAR MINT MINUS
VINYL - VERY GOOD PLUS
First East Coast Mono pressing of the debut Velvet Underground album, featuring Nico. Uncensored cover, also known as the 1st state cover Torso. The front cover has an unpeeled Andy Warhol banana sticker in the excellent condition, and also a large record store round price sticker, which was applied above another rectangular sticker underneath. I still can't believe that someone at the record store affixed it directly to the cover. I am sure it happened, because at the time of the album's release it ranked only the 171st place in the Billboard chart. If the person applying the sticker knew what a conceptual role in the future this album would play in the development of rock music and what a collector's value it would have than I think he wouldn't do it :) The cover is in clean amazing condition without any ring wear, writing, splitting or tears, and comes from a great collection, where the records are being very well taken care of. The banana sticker is also in the excellent condition, fully intact and without tears, only having some super light marks. The beautiful labels have some super light spindle marks along with the shiny vinyl, which also has some light scuffs and hairlines. The run-out area contains the following matrix numbers Side 1 Etched: V5008 SIDE 1 MG558REV 1C BLOCK-LOOKING S / Side 2 Etched: V5008 SIDE 2 MG559 1 1 8.
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