You might have heard about the riots in London these past few days, and I just wanted to let you all know about the Sony warehouse that was burnt down - home to lots of indie labels' stock; Beggars Banquet, XL, Warp, and many others. Given how much independent labels depend on physical sales, and how little money they have due to the recession, it's looking like some are going to go under. The good news though, is that a fund is being set up to minimise the damage - http://cognitvedissonancerecords.com/labellove/.
Here's an article with more information, and a list of labels distributed by PIAS.
Mollx
Hey - well said, I think it's terrible what theyve done; we really must support the indies, it'll be us that suffer if we don't
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PS - tried to add a non-anonymous comment, it wouldn't let me!
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