There's a huge difference between independent record stores and indie record stores.
There are towns all over the place that aren't big enough to warrant a record store from one of the chains, where a couple of guys have opened a record shop that is the only place for miles around that folks can buy any kind of music. They're not there for hipsters, they're there for everyone. They've already been hit hard enough by downloading and recession, and now they're gonna be hit again by one of the big four (is it four these days?) record companies refusing to sell stock to them. Which is crap.
I want to try and explain why this is so crap, but I can't be bothered trying.
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