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Well, Urinal Talker could definitely afford it. Maybe he's been following my internet usage and chose that name to fuck with me. In which case, he's probably also hired a batallion of dwarf ninjas to assassinate me while I eat a slice of pizza.
This reminds me, many years ago I found a CD (of sketchy origins) that has several of Lou Reed's songs from when he was part of a team cranking out singles for Pickwick Records. (I think he met John Cale at that job.) I know it has "The Ostrich," "Sneaky Pete," and "I've Got A Tiger In My Tank" on it.
If anyone's interested, I'll post some of those tracks later on this week.
BoringPostcards: the MeFi post had a link to all the tracks. I grabbed it, as did many others, I'm sure. If you can't find it elsewhere, email me and I'll get you a copy.
It's odd that the yahoo article just skips right over Sterling Morrison.
BP, I'd *love* to hear "The Ostrich" (or any of them, but especially that one since Kurt Loder mentions it on the liner notes for VU (my first exposure to the band)).
felix, what would be nice about a commercial release is, perhaps, some of the crackling present on the zipfile would be gone.
felix, thank you! I should have looked at the original MeFi post, I guess.
jon, the CD is called "A Young Person's Guide To The Velvet Underground," and is on some Italian label I think. There's some weird stuff on there: studio chatter, those Pickwick songs, and versions of VU songs from who knows where.
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