So apparently it was Record Store Day at the weekend, a worldwide celebration of the remaining few independent retailers soldiering on in the face of free and stolen downloads and a collapsing industry. I didn’t notice either.
When we blogged about the slowly decaying state of small shops and labels recently it elicited quite a response, most of it from seemingly passionate music fans who pledge to prop the whole thing up one way or another and indies vowing to carry on regardless. Which is...
NME - The Daily Download — So apparently it was Record Store Day at the weekend, a worldwide celebration of the remaining few independent retailers soldiering on in the face of free and stolen down... more info