Welcome to your new powerhouse major label, Access Industries! (Because they own Warner Music Group now.)

The passion.

ugly. that's a lot of money though!

love the mention of clapton, buble, and paramore at the start. yeesh.

in mother russia, mp3s download YOU
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i'd rather own universal. with warner you get atlantic and elektra and sire and london, but as a record collector i would buy univeral so i could re-release choice titles from a&m, island, mercury, motown, verve, impulse, decca, polydor, vertigo, philips, fontana, dunhill, blue thumb, and uni. it's a no brainer really.

plus, i would so totally own deutsche grammophon if i bought universal!

Drinking up the proceeds:

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i'd rather own universal. with warner you get atlantic and elektra and sire and london, but as a record collector i would buy univeral so i could re-release choice titles from a&m, island, mercury, motown, verve, impulse, decca, polydor, vertigo, philips, fontana, dunhill, blue thumb, and uni. it's a no brainer really.

― scott seward, Friday, May 6, 2011 9:22 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

plus, i would so totally own deutsche grammophon if i bought universal!

― scott seward, Friday, May 6, 2011 9:25 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM, not to mention Rhino has all but given up on the physical reissue/box set market, and nearly all of its vinyl reissues are licensed out to third parties.

my deluxe vinyl reissue program would begin here. flood every best buy in the nation with kagel displays.

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the list of Universal labels is endless - you could use your Drake and Black Eyed Peas profits to reissue choice CTI and ECM sides

would walmart carry my 180 gram human beast reissue?

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every nova release available to the kids at the mall!

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Would actually start buying music again if Access Industries changed its name to the Sheinhardt Wig Co.

xp sure, i keep hearing that vinyl is coming back.

but Walmart doesn't want that deluxe shit. $9.99 retail in a kiosk next to the cheap DVD bin.

I'm in with everyone else who would buy up Universal. Universal sucks with their handling and I don't like what Island has become since it merged with Def Jam.

although reading that library of congress article that ned linked to, it is cool that universal gave the LoC their sound archives. safe keeping and all. a MILE of material!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21375208

Warner Music is to buy the record label Parlophone from Universal Music for £487m ($765m), it has announced.

Warner said it would pay cash for the label, whose artists include Coldplay, Kylie Minogue and Pink Floyd.

Parlophone was formerly a part of EMI Music.

Regulators approved Universal's takeover of EMI in September, but said it would have to sell off some of EMI's assets, including Parlophone, to allay competition concerns.

"This is a very important milestone for Warner Music, reflecting our commitment to artist development by strengthening our worldwide roster, global footprint and executive talent," said Len Blavatnik, chairman and founder of Access Industries, the parent company of Warner Music.

The Parlophone label group also includes the Chrysalis and Ensign labels, as well as EMI's recorded music operations in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden.

With its wide range of artists, Parlophone had been described as the "jewel in the crown" of EMI.

The Beatles, part of Parlophone, were exempted from the sale.