A new service called VYNL is launching which will offer subscribers the chance to receive albums through the post.
The American-based company, who are funded via Kickstarter, will use hashtags to help subscribers form a queue, then send them three records every month based on the hashtags they chose.
They will then have the option to purchase an album for $8-$12, and send back the rejects in a pre-paid carboard mailer.
Rough Trade Shops is releasing a compilation album of the best music released by the indie label over the past 40 years.
Entitled Recorded At The Automat: The Best of Rough Trade Records, the album, which is released March 23, will cover the early years of Rough Trade, when Geoff Travis first started the label in 1978, later to be joined by Jeannette Lee. It includes the likes of Swell Maps, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, The Raincoats, The Smiths, The Strokes, the Libertines, Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens.
On December 3 last year, Nigel Godrich sent an early Christmas present to his 62,000 followers on Twitter. In a move doubtless sanctioned by his old friends, the producer posted a photograph of Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood poring over a fiendish tangle of studio kit, styled very much as radiophonic engineers absorbed in the process.
