If the distrib fronts money for pressing/promo/whatever and it is not a p&d agreement...unless it is a pathetically bad p&d, which many are. And the label hasn't been doing well enough to pay back the fronted $$. I don't know how else.
that's too bad about amato. i'd actually never heard of them though. (underground) record sales have been solid for about 2 years. the sky fell and the decline ended quite awhile ago. sales are generally lower than in the past for established labels, but it's not bad. an upturn would be great. i can almost see it happening. because cd's suck and mp3's suck. generic corporate objects and ethereal digital media must be leaving people a little hungry?! oh well, maybe not > how does a label go about owing a distributor?!?!?! > > tom >
