fck Reissues!

[breton]

People are spending their money on online shops, instead of investing in new artists and labels.

LOLWHAT?

They take up pressing plant space, and in turn independent label lead times suffer.
What does everyone else think, surley it's better to invest in new music and artists , if you are to keep a genre healthy?

Dude, vinyl is being pressed, isn't it a good thing? Surely, keeping vinyl alive and kicking is more importaint than lead times?

Also, what fear_of_flying said.

[damnwords]

our last Leif release took 5 months from handing over the WAV to getting copies in the shops

doesn't seem that much. how much of this time was dedicated just to the mastering process ?

also, ste-waite, talking from what you heard from friends ? is this really necessary ?

[John Clees]

People are spending their money on online shops, instead of investing in new artists and labels.

LOLWHAT?

exactly.. that's makes no sense and is completely bias to assume. online shop "need" new music to survive, and have "update" emails to make sure people know ahead of time of new things coming out. They help stimulates the market place, and most certainly don't "take away" from it.

If you are referring to "starting" up a label it takes tact and time to get your label to sell there. As I mentioend not too long ago in another thread, someone I spoke to this past summer who has been selling records for 20 years now, said they "still" only press 200-300, and ship apx 25 records at a time to juno, and other online shops. so it's a lot of work regardless. far from easy.

are you and your friends doing this for the love of music or the idea and motive to make a profit? A few record shops growing up in detroit are no longer there, and I understand the idea of getting something started, but online shops are what's keeping vinyl moving in extremely difficult markets. they most certainly aren't the enemy but rather a product of their environment.

major labels getting back into the game, flooding the plants with releases

perhaps is a lot of truth in that statement. That is a really good point.

supply / demand

[tone-def]

You could argue that reissues keep the standard of new music higher. If you're worried that your release is going to get overlooked because of reissues, maybe it's not worth releasing?

[roland]

You could argue that reissues keep the standard of new music higher. If you're worried that your release is going to get overlooked because of reissues, maybe it's not worth releasing?

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