Vinyl records are back, and Jack White is tired of silently watching while artists face endless lines and a lack of supplies to release new albums in that format.
As reported by Pitchfork , the musician made a video appeal to record labels for in-house record manufacturing, as they currently rely on outsourced services and are unable to keep up with the "insane growth in demand" for this type of physical media, which has a long waiting list for new orders.
White owns a record label and has had a record factory since 2017, which is why he receives many requests for help from artists and other people in the industry. In the video, the musician appears at the Third Man Records and makes an appeal to the three largest global record labels, Warner, Sony , and Universal , to invest in this area.
“In a world so dependent on being current and timed perfectly (a single, an album, a tour, etc.), this [waiting for records] kills the timing, the soul, the artistic expression and, often, the means of subsistence. Something needs to be done,” he said.
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