LoopDreams said:Two turds are better then one.
But that Verocai... and you even managed to keep the shrink on it and never crack the gatefold, your a better man then I.
I would have had to crack it open to look at those studio photo's...LOL!
I'm still not totally convinced about the Continental gatefold releases originally coming out with shrink wraps. Could it not have been done at a later date perhaps!!!
I've had three copies of Verocai pass through my hands, all of them mint, also a few other Continental titles with gatefold sleeves that never had shrink coverings (all picked up in Brazil itself).
All the other labels that released stuff in the 60s & 70s in single, or gatefold sleeves, also appear to not have done shrink wrap sleeves!
Odeon had their albums, and some of their compacto singles wrapped in a thick sealed plastic covering, but like most U.K. label releases shrink wrapped sleeves were not generally part of the culture for record companies in Brazil (though some of them may have shrink wrapped records that were destined for export only perhaps). There was in the 80s labels like Som Da Gente and Warner that had started to put shrink on their sleeve jackets. It seems highly unlikely that in all those multitude of records (especially radio station copies) that have ended up in peoples collection around the world from the 60s & 70s, that none of them would have escaped not still having some of the shrink intact on the record sleeve!
It could also be simply that the general public in Brazil always tore off the shrink covers, never regarding that it helps keep the records in better condition in the long run!!!