There's still Goastore and Beatspace, and these days you can find most releases on Amazon, too.
There's also ordering stuff direct from labels, which is by far the best way to support them based on Anoebis's recent thread.
Question for Joske: how does ordering from you via Discogs compare, profit margin-wise, to ordering from the Suntrip site? (The reason I just did so is because I couldn't see a way to put my address into the form on the Suntrip site; I have no street number and the flat name and number didn't fit in the street number field.)
Actually what you wrote in #27 made perfect sense as far as I can tell (which is not to say that it's true, I wouldn't know). Not sure what Panoptes's point was.
What do you propose should be done to prevent it? I would assume it's the same with most genres with a sufficiently young fan base, is it not?
I wouldn't worry Radi, I expect when the oil runs out we in the West will just reinstate slavery and subjugate a bunch of less civilised peoples, then everything will be fine again.
(That's a joke, by the way.)
No, I have ample opportunities to listen to psytrance when I want to. Most people don't like it, so there's not much point playing it in public places like shops and cafés.
Do you suppose there'd be any demand for a website that kept track of current releases like Goastore/Psyshop etc. but instead of selling them itself it featured links to the relevant pages of labels' own sites? Seems like it could work, though I'm not sure about the economics of it. Conceivably labels could submit details (it would be in their interest to do so if the site took off) so maintaining it wouldn't be too much work, and there could be an option for labels to pay to have their releases displayed more prominently. Sound plausible?
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The inconvenient memory filter strikes again. In reality, it was pointed out that the Bandcamp link is prominently displayed on the Suntrip site itself.