A weird coincidence: Just after I finished reading a couple of rants about
how clueless record companies and artists are being about getting their
shit up for online purchase, I'm surfing around some music news sites and
find the following:
http://rl.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml?id=250239&pid=251770
I'm not gonna post the whole thing, but here's the first couple of
paragraphs.
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Earlier this month, with little fanfare or tearful
reminiscences, Twin/Tone Records pressed its last new CD.
But mourning around the Minneapolis offices of the indie
rock label -- best known as home to early
recordings by the Replacements, Soul Asylum, Ween, Babes In
Toyland and the Jayhawks -- was
nowhere to be seen.
To the contrary: Far from bowing out of the music business,
Twin/Tone is setting its sights
squarely on the future. By the end of this year, in fact,
co-founder and managing director Paul
Stark hopes that Twin/Tone will be distributing the work of
at least 1,000 bands -- entirely over the
Internet.
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Greg