Can Music Stores, Indie Labels Survive The Big Distribution Debacle?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Thread title taken directly from the article: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/11/can-music-stores-indie-labels-survive-the-big-distribution-debacle.html?fbclid=IwAR3wLQUNFo505XOkFfriWamd10VkHlZwaTMghMIzi9aty-mbFhnRWFmNByQ

It sounds pretty bad. I am curious to hear from any board members with first hand knowledge if this is true.

[Larry Kart]

My son works at Reckless Records in Chicago. He says that the problem is awful. Lots of in-demand and/or staple titles aren't arriving.

[Brad]

I think this is the company that does warehousing and distribution for Rhino, which is owned by Warner Music Group. Over on the Hoffman there have been a lot of complaints about shipping Grateful Dead stock. I don’t know if this company was handling distribution when the Woodstock sets were distributed as there were a lot of complaints about that process as well. 

[JSngry]

Cost-Center-Efficiency-centricity continues to eat itself.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

It serve it right to suffer.

[felser]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Cost-Center-Efficiency-centricity continues to eat itself.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

It serve it right to suffer.

[JSngry]

Exactly!