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Labels Squeeze Music Critics

By AAN Staff
october 22, 2002  11:01 am
Labels Squeeze Music Critics
In the post-Napster music piracy era, labels are holding advance CDs for the media until just before their release dates, Matt Borlik of Washington City Paper writes. "It's a concept so backwards, so self-defeating, so abso-fucking-lutely idiotic that only a major label executive could have thought it was a good idea," Borlik says. Not only that, alt-weeklies, which write more about music than any other media, are suddenly finding themselves completely off the advance release lists or having to accept streaming audio instead of CDs.
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