TheBobBonner wrote:

independent releases account for something like 25% of record sales nowadays, but the major labels have almost complete control over the radio airwaves.

Woo! and Boo! in the same sentence...

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is a major label going to bother putting out a bishop allen album on 180 gram vinyl? no way.

Actually, I just found out that Virgin is going to be releasing With Love and Squalor by We Are Scientists on vinyl pretty soon. I'm buying it, for sures.

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if clementines was released on a major label, i wouldn't buy it.

Isn't that just a little drastic? I mean, don't you at least want to hear the CD and hold it in your hands? I know I bought two copies of tWAS's album!

shannon wrote:

There is also the issue about copy control.

Yesterday I saw the most awesome thing. There was an album that, instead of having copy protection, had a label that said "No copy protection: please don't steal." I thought that was awesome, and I'm quite impressed. I think I played the track as one of my rotationals at the station then.