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EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On

Posted by samzenpus on from the another-brick-in-the-wall dept.

farrellj writes "According to Zeropaid, record company EMI has been notifying small music stores that they will no longer be able to buy EMI CDs from EMI, and will have to buy product from mega-chains like Walmart. Independent record store customers are some of the most loyal music buyers around. You are not going to find the back catalog, what used to be the staple of the music business, at your local Walmart. One wonders when the music business is going to run out of feet to shoot?"

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  1. Meh. Don't buy RIAA regardless of who's selling. by fyoder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    EMI is one of the big four RIAA member labels, along with Sony, Universal, and Warner. I stopped buying their shite ages ago, and I don't really care if I'm not buying it from a little store or a big one.

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  2. Onestops aren't walmart, this article is wrong by JudasBlue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One stops are mid level distributors that carry product from multiple labels. Somewhere the person writing this article got very confused by what is going on here.

    If you look at the article comments there is a guy there who is also pointing this out.

    Not saying EMI isn't annoying as are most of the labels, but this article is seriously confused.

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  3. Re:Meh. Don't buy RIAA regardless of who's selling by fishbowl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I stopped buying EMI products the day the Harry Fox Agency accused me of being a criminal for putting my own work on the web.

    Not only did I stop buying things from this company, I went from being an *avid* collector to them being *dead to me* and unlike some others, I never looked back.

    At the same time, I started discovering independent music, *many* genres with artists who are far more interested in getting their message out than getting a 1/16th cent royalty from you. Many of these artists benefit from being discovered -- not by a record producer but by YOU, the person who might become a fan after listening, and who might actually attend a concert, not at a megastadium but at a club or a festival.

    I don't really care what EMI does, or doesn't do. They are dead to me, and I do not believe in ghosts.

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