From Chris.Hilker Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 02:30
From Chris.Hilker Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 02:30
>I heard a funny story from one of the US distributers that >is carrying the new Autechre album. I guess, due to the >import ban, they were not able to buy the Autechre >album from their normal source in the UK. So they >had a friend of theirs in the UK show up in person >to the UK distributer. When he got there he bought >several hundred copies and then shipped them to the >US distributer. Somehow Nothing found out and gave >this US distributer a call and a thorough bitching out. >But since this US distributer doesn't distribute any >Nothing releases they just laughed and hung up on >Nothing. I wonder if they'll hang up on Nothing's attorneys if they happen to call. I wonder if Warp will be doing business with this UK distributor that seems to be following a wink-wink business policy that obviously undercut's Warp's overseas licensing and will make it that much more difficult for Warp to make deals with potential licensees in the future. Has it occurred to any of the whiny Veruca Salt types on the list that the reason Warp tends to deal with dodgy labels is because more responsible businesses want no part of a licensing deal where they'll have to compete with greymarket import copies? Don't give me that mandatory simultaneous release crap - manufacturing and distributing a record throughout the US is an undertaking on an entirely different scale than doing the same in the UK. C. -- Chris.Hilker (xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx) "What I don't understand," said Richard, "is what these people have against dictionaries. Maybe they don't even know they can't spell."