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  • Bury Your Art: The album has never been reissued on a physical format and didn't appear on streaming services until 2014, owed to it being a de-facto Doug Yule solo album that Polydor Records rushed out the door to capitalize on the success of former frontman Lou Reed's Transformer the year prior and the band's growing cult following. Yule dismissed the album in 1995 as "the blind leading the blind," and the other band members have refused to discuss it to this day.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: While the album's officially available on streaming services, it was never given a physical re-release. Consequently, anyone who wants to own a hard copy of the album has to resort to secondhand copies of the original LP release or bootleg CDs.
  • Troubled Production: The album had even more pressure from the company and was basically a Doug Yule solo album. The rest of the band had quit by this point and was rushed to release in order to cash in on VU's supposedly marketable name in the wake of former frontman Lou Reed's success with Transformer. The album is hated by VU fans and is usually left out of any mentions of discography. Vinyl pressings stopped by the mid-70s and the album is now only attainable on a physical format by fans who Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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