I’m pretty sure that’s actually how it came back in the day. I checked both my sad songs and cherry tree and they’re in different sleeves than my typical ones with the VMP sticker on the outside. There’s no way I would have bothered removing the standard VMP hype sticker and putting it there
Mine is in a sleeve with the VMP Exclusive sticker on the sleeve. Record is out of the sleeve. I think they shipped this way. Outer sleeve looks new. Yours was probably in a warehouse and got a bit dirty.