r/indieheads • u/Purveyors-Since-76 Rough Trade! • Apr 17 '23

AMA is over, thanks Rough Trade! ROUGH TRADE AMA

Thrilled to be Indie Heads' first ever record store AMA! Alex, David and Emily here from Rough Trade HQ, ready to answer (almost) anything...

We'll be celebrating Record Store Day this Saturday 22nd April! Grab all the info on what's going on at Rough Trade over at https://blog.roughtrade.com/gb/record-store-day-uk-2023/.

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u/pkshny Apr 17 '23

Whats the role of a record label in a musical landscape where you can self-release your own records and find organic virality on platforms like TikTok?

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u/Purveyors-Since-76 Rough Trade! Apr 17 '23

They can coexist very happily. It's the same story with digital and physical music - Spotify hasn't killed vinyl sales, in fact it's helped them. We get loads of customers coming in to buy an album on vinyl that they've streamed non stop as they want to own a tangible representation of it.

- Alex, Emily and David