Quote Originally Posted by jonnyspeed
I agree. I can however see that the demise of distributors cos costs labels alot of money. This has an effect on the percieved risk for labels to put out tunes so cheaper pressing is probably a way of reducing the investment and therefore less risk.
we're also seeing a lot more web-based distributors. web-records.com doing pretty well for themselves, cut a lot of cost out by not paying a fortune for nice designing! (and all that middlemen cutting aswell) Hopefully, it'll all reach a nice equilibrium soon that sees we get quality prints & they get our quality business!