It??s rare to find Brazilian records from the early 1970s still with shrink wrap though they exist and it did occur on many labels though it is perceived as a myth, as few still exist like that today.
I??d highly doubt that is an import. It??s also not the first Verocai to be sold in shrink. There was one sold a few years ago in shrink for MUCH less than the current price on his auction right now, that is unless it is not the same one being auction that is. Take a look on Popsike.
On the auction, whilst it??s gracefull to acknowledge people it is wrongfull information. Yes Tropicalia "discovered" this record though the people who own Tropicalia are called MARCIO AND BRUNO, not Marcus. Also it was not Marcio who "discovered" the record it was Bruno in 1990 - I say "discovered" as that is what the auction implies, what in fact happened was the English and Japanese were buying as much as they could from Brazil and not telling shop owners what it was they were looking for so as not to inform them and inflate prices until one day, an idiot from Russia, responsible for many shitty bootlegs during the 1990s who was also a theif because he took money from these artists and actually stole other things and is infamous for that in Brazil. He gave Bruno a list of what he was looking for and the prices he??d sell them for in the U.K, the Verocai was already known outside of Brazil for a good 5 years.
Bruno found a copy and sold it to the Russian gentleman for the wholesome amount of $30. The Russian man is responsible for creating the absurb inflation of Brazilian records we see today.
The Verocai was never imported and it was not burned in a fire either, this is sensationalism. The honest truth is that it was pressed in small amounts and was a flop.
Continental was a relatively small label and by the arrival of the 1970s and was one of the labels which was economically forced to recycle records that did not sell, so my beleif is that the remaing Verocai??s were not burned as there were terrible problems with oil in Brazil in the 70s, 80s and 90s until Petrobras was formed and Brazil started to exploit its own territory, for that reason alone I do not see a label that was formed in the 1950s with many years of pressing records behind them in a country with ridiculous importation taxes burning their stock. Not one person has ever spoke of a fire in many years.
Labels like Philips of course were corporations and never recycled. Logic.
Just to add: what a find!
uderonomy said:I wish somebody with a clean copy of the Verocai would organise a legit re-ish.
