The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground Boxed Set (Polydor)
Mat Snow, NME, 3 May 1986
WHEN POP-JOURNALISTS say "classic", we mean a record that well still be playing in ten years. Marketing sharpies, however, have a far surer handle on this vague concept: "classic" means Dickens-by-the-yard bound in hand-tooled Kidron. Collected. Collectible. Boxed.
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