Some sucker paid $25,000 on eBay for that rare acetate of the Velvet Underground’s lost Scepter studio sessions (picked up on a New York Chelsea Street by Warren Hill for 75 cents). Now, by the miracle of internet piracy, you can download copies of the tracks for free, courtesy of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:
Here are the Mp3s, in the running order of the acetate (which differs from the order of the actual VU and Nico release). You can hear the marked difference in tracks like “European Son”, and while some of these same takes wound up utilized for the Warhol LP, these are rougher mixes.
Originally posted on FM Shades, home to plenty more booty for you IP pirates with a taste for underground tunage.
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