For those about to fight labels, we salute you
The seven Graywhales in Utah are participating in a coalition of indie record store chains and stores that buy AC/DC and G n' Roses albums overseas, and then sell them in their own stores. This is how they are fighting back against Wal-Mart and Best Buy, which singed exclusive deals with the bands' record labels to be the only U.S. retailers to sell the albums.
A much larger story about this issue will be in Friday's paper and online, but here is a bit I wasn't able to include in the story:
Not all Utah independent record stores are participating in the coalition, some choosing not to stock the albums at all. Anna Brozek, co-owner of Salt Lake City’s Slowtrain Records, applauded the effort, because of the big-box retailers’ strategy that seems to be becoming more prevalent. She called Best Buy’s and Wal-Mart’s efforts as trying to establish “a mini-monopoly.” But Cedar City’s Groovacious record store co-owner Lisa Cretsinger didn’t wholly support Graywhale’s position. She said her store would still support future albums from Columbia or Interscope — which Graywhale has considered boycotting. “That’s like shooting our foot,” she said. Cretsinger added that any attempt, even by Graywhale, to get people to buy AC/DC or Guns N’ Roses only makes those artists and record labels richer.
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