VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1st Press TORSO COVER Orig. DEBUT LP Verve VG++

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Here's a copy of the Velvets album everyone is always asking for--the first pressing "Torso Cover" of The Velvet Underground and Nico on Verve. This has the unreduced back cover where Eric Emerson's upside down head is visible, before it was retouched out The cover grades VG++, with the banana sticker missing, but it's overall very clean as you can see from the photos below. There is a bit of barely visible round price sticker residue just to the right and above the top tip of the banana, and the back cover has a bit of horizontal wrinkling where the slick was applied on the left side about 4" from the bottom, but this is a LOT cleaner than a vast majority of the copies we see. There is an invisibly repaired 4" seam split to the top spine, but again, these are all minor issues. The original deep groove disc grades VG and plays through with intermittent light surface noise and no skips or jumps, though there are many ticks on "I'll Be Your Mirror." Rare ! We grade all records visually, cover first, then disc; using the abbreviations M / NM / EX / VG with + and -. We try to describe everything as accurately as possible, and spot check any vinyl flaw that looks like it might make a sound. We regularly receive praise for our grading, but as all grading is subjective, we are happy to give a full refund for anything you aren’t happy with—no questions asked.


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 486 (GS 6.5.1 (486))