Ask yourselves, if the music industry's largest players were committed to vinyl long term, why aren't more laquering and vinyl production plants being built? Sony Japan reopened its Japanese plant in 2017 and Jack White opened his in 2017, but where are the rest? In a normal supply/demand situation, people would seek to profit by expanding their manufacturing capacity. However, there are only 23 pressing plants in the US. New plants aren't happening in the US in proportion to the demand- why? That leaves labels shipping stuff to Euro plants like Pallss, Optimal, GZ, MPO and it has to all be shipped back to the US.I mean we are all just speculating. RSD has been printing lots of “pointless” records for years and it is a problem for a minute around rsd. This is clearly more. I think it’s a little bit of everything posted here… colorways causing stopping between pressings, demand, needless pressings, not enough plants, the loss of one of the major providers of lacquer, Covid, more RSD and supply chain issues.
20 k records printed in black will take less time than 20k pressed in blue smurf fairy sparkle will take less time then 20k printed in 20 different colorways.
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