| Grex > Music3 > #41: The Crash in the Music Business |  |
| response 70 of 71: | 
Jan 23 23:07 UTC 2002 |
Selling 500,000 copies of an LP is rather astounding these days. Now selling 500,000 copies of a CD might be considered nice.
| response 71 of 71: |
Feb 22 23:40 UTC 2002 |
Distribution North America (DNA), which I believe to have been the leading distributor of indie rock CDs, has gone bankrupt. Ugh. When the leading indie distributors went *boom* ten years ago, some stuff went out of print, and some labels went away because they couldn't absorb the loss of income they were due from the distributor. Here's a story from the MSU State News: http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=8889