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The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground Boxed Set (Polydor)

Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 3 May 1986

WHEN POP-JOURNALISTS say "classic", we mean a record that we’ll 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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