Went to Dead Wax Records in Garland and brought home 1967’s The Velvet Underground with Nico. This is new pressing by the original label, Verve Records. It even has the peeling banana sticker. I can’t afford an original pressing. They go for thousands of dollars. The Underground sound remarkably modern on this album. To think this was released the same year as Sgt. Peppers. Pepper is a great album but it is definitely a statement of a particular time and place. The Velvet Underground’s debut album sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday.
