Wholesale records distributors?

used to run a store so I know a few (RIP Mordam and No Idea! they were my guys!) but I want to know moarrr. especially doom metal ones.

my take:

Revelation: too pricey and stuck in the past
Ebullition: always been cheap. bit too hardcore for me these days though
Cobraside: v.good. got a lot of great stuff.
ILD: some cheap as helll exclusives (SFTRI)
Sound of California: nice big list with some surprisingly range but its run by 1 guy who... yeah... I dunno... I mustve ordered the INDIAN lp 3 times off the guy and each time he writes back and says "I don't have it and I havent updated the catalogue"
Secretly Distribution: very nice. Touch and Go and Flying Nun exclusives. Most of the other bands I've never even heard of
Midheaven: still the best stuff. and still a bit snooty. God forbid you would want to ask them a question. They'll ignore it.
Robotic Empire: looks alluring but havent pulled the trigger yet
Alliance: talked my way into an account, supposedly the biggest wholesaler of vinyl on the planet, responsible for “48% of all vinyl sales” on gods black earth in the last year. but wft. what a let down. Sure they got buttloads but it aint at wholesale prices. Theyre just a goddamn distributor with Big Business prices. As I said to the very helpful businessman sales rep guy, I can buy almost all this stuff from the actual source or their exclusive distributor at way cheaper. These "wholesale prices" are higher than what the lp is priced at in stores. Let alone 3x higher than the cheapest copy of it on discogs.



$17.75 for BATS “Daddy’s Highway”? I can get that for $10 from actual wholesalers.

 

oh wow Stickfigure are still going, forgot about them: StickFigure Distribution & Mailorder

also, deathwish direct: Deathwish Direct Wholesale List

 

All I know are deceased distributors. I loved being allowed to wander in their warehouses and just pick stuff for myself. My radio gig was usually my ticket past the locked doors.

When Rounder was in Cambridge, it had an unbelievable warehouse!

 

Were you trying to buy bulk copies or 1s & 2s? If the latter, Alliance is definitely the wrong place. And they've always been big and never particularly nice, even if you're actually trying to help them (long story).

 

As with all these places, was dependent on how cheap they were!

All ears here buddy!

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Armageddon also do wholesale. As well as having two online stores for their shops. Awesome dudes. BRAINBOMBS reissues coming soon: Home

 

Dead Tank Records wholesale list: Dead Tank Wholesale

 

Norton Records wholesale list: OCT. 2018 CURRENT WS EXCEL

 

Cargo UK wholesale list catalogue.xls

 

I see Alliance outlet ccmusic.com now quotes an insanely low $29 shipping for twenty $16 lp's to Japan. I don't know how they make it so cheap. That's way cheaper than FDX Great Rates isnt it?

 

$29 to Japan for twenty albums. That can't be true unless in a massive freight forwarder that ships to Japan. That's cheap. $28 for 1 LP to Japan USPS.