Re: [microsound] sublight records?

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they went under.  basically they shipped more records than what sold and the
distributors of those records charged back for what was shipped back to them
by the stores.  sublight couldnt afford to pay for charge backs so the
distributors bought the stock for pennies and are now selling them.  so now,
when you buy a sublight record at the store or online "new" none of that
money goes to artists or to the label.  this is ONE source of the whole
flashbulb/itunes thing.  the records are being sold but no artists are
making money.  piracy is thought to be one of the reasons the records were
charged back to begin with.  ironically (i think...), people who want those
records now get them off torrent sites in protest since artists ultimately
wont see any money from sales.  i have a theory that when sublight decided
to close doors that someone from the label uploaded the entire catalogue to
various sites just to stick it to the distributors and prevent them from
profiting.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> anyone know what happen to these guys?
>
> website doesn't work...
>
> g.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublight
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